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Hurricane Katrina vs. Hurricane Helene (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Well, it's not over.

This is coming next week. Path is unclear, and its not as big as Helene, but anything near a 930mb in Tampa Bay and plowing over Orlando at 950mb, especially at this angle, is a catastrophe.

Katrina was 920mb at landfall, and these intensity forecasts have been undershooting hurricanes recently.

And there's another low pressure system at the edge of the GFS that I don't like, taking a similar path to Helene:

This is what the upcoming hurricane looked like a few days ago.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's clearly trying to help the US by amputating the injured limb.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Or take out Florida so it has a more open path to Texas.