Here’s a Handy Guide for Determining Hurricane Categories

September 03, 2019 By: El Jefe Category: Trump

Very useful when a certain someone is not familiar with hurricane categories:

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  1. Marcia in CO says:

    LOL

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  2. Today’s laugh, and so early in the day. (I’m retired; this is early.)

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  3. I needed that…..hahahaha

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  4. OMG!! In the last one he looks like Jeff Sessions…

    And lazrgirl, as a retiree myself, I make it a policy to refrain from getting up before the crack of 9.

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  5. And here I was expecting the scale would be all about how much damage was done to Trump properties.

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  6. Now that is a fantastically funny and clever put down of the Hurricane Expert-in-Chief’s scientific know how: how much hairspray to use in a cat. 5.

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  7. trump’s bravado is always broadcast from within a scrum of lawyers and body guards. Don’t expect to see him anywhere near actual danger.

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  8. Cat 5 is a riot.

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  9. Grandma Ada says:

    OMG – you scared me while I was eating my lunch!

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  10. Stole that pic, put it right into the ‘politics’file…

    I think that the Cat 6* image is a pic morph of Putin’s face.

    Thanks a lot, had to mop up iced coffee…

    * There is no official Category 6 hurricane level, Cat 5 is the top, wind speeds 157mph and up; Dorian had 185mph, with 220mph+ gusts [the shifting gusts are a buzzsaw that do more damage than the sustained/steady state wind].

    Saffir–Simpson scale
    Category Wind speeds (for 1-minute maximum sustained winds)
    m/s knots (kn) mph km/h
    Five ≥ 70 m/s ≥ 137 kn ≥ 157 mph ≥ 252 km/h
    Four 58–70 m/s 113–136 kn 130–156 mph 209–251 km/h
    Three 50–58 m/s 96–112 kn 111–129 mph 178–208 km/h
    Two 43–49 m/s 83–95 kn 96–110 mph 154–177 km/h
    One 33–42 m/s 64–82 kn 74–95 mph 119–153 km/h
    Related classifications
    (for 1-minute maximum sustained winds)
    Tropical storm 18–32 m/s 34–63 kn 39–73 mph 63–118 km/h
    Tropical depression ≤ 17 m/s ≤ 33 kn ≤ 38 mph ≤ 62 km/h

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    However, there are developing ideas amongst climatologists, et al., about a new class of “Hypercanes”. Which are beyond scary.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercane

    “A hypercane is a hypothetical class of extreme tropical cyclone that could form if ocean temperatures reached approximately 50 °C (122 °F), which is 15 °C (27 °F) warmer than the warmest ocean temperature ever recorded.[1] Such an increase could be caused by a large asteroid or comet impact, a large supervolcanic eruption, a large submarine flood basalt, or extensive global warming.[2] There is some speculation that a series of hypercanes resulting from an impact by a large asteroid or comet contributed to the demise of the non-avian dinosaurs.[3] The hypothesis was created by Kerry Emanuel of MIT, who also coined the term.[4][5][3]”

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  11. The Surly Professor says:

    Sandridge: If you’re collecting photos of Trump, don’t miss the photoshop that applies the natural color around his eyes to the rest of his face, and ditches the comb-over:

    https://twitter.com/jordanrivers_nz/status/1093261623978975233

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