Milton rapidly intensified to a Category 5 hurricane late Monday morning.

Within hours, Milton strengthened to a Category 2, then a Category 3, then a Category 4 and finally a Category 5.

Milton now ranks as the third-greatest 24-hour wind speed intensification for a hurricane in the Atlantic Basin. (Records are based on data since the satellite era began in the 1960s.)

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[–] 81 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Could be worse... at least it's not in Meters.

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  • [+] -12 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    It is in meters and since that an elevation map of Florida, that is the better scenario.

    Basically all the areas in purple and dark blue are low enough for the storm surge to flood them. If it was feet, then the blue-green will probably be underwater as well.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    The question about ft came right below the elevation map, but it was a top-level comment on the OP and not a sub-comment about the elevation map.

    Seems you were confused about this order of comments too but unfortunately you’ve taken downvotes for it.

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    Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven wrote a book called Lucifer's Hammer about a comet hitting the Earth. There's a part where all the surfers in the ocean off of L.A. know they're going to die, so they decide to ride the tsunami and get taken out one by one as they get smashed into buildings.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Unfortunately, at least from videos I've seen of the Indian Ocean tsunami and the Fukushima tsunami, tsunamis don't really "break" like good surfing waves and instead seem to act more like a large swell that keeps going instead of ebbing.

    (A mega-tsunami from a comet impact might be so large it would act differently, though.)

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I'll be honest, it's one of the least believable parts of a book which overall reads as quite plausible, but it's a fun chapter. Neither of the authors are/were scientists, so they were bound to get some things wrong. It was also written almost 50 years ago, so I'm guessing the science they did work with has been supplanted in a lot of ways since then.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You’re surfing all the way to sooner island from Florida‽

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    Holy fuck people. It says right in the image that it's in meters.

    So not only lemmings can't read, a comment asking for info staring you in the face has 55 upvotes... and the wrong answer has 38.

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  • [+] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Well, that's egg on my face. Thanks for the correction.

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