Atlantic Hurricane Season 2009

[jaxmkii]

sweet! Bill might make it to CT as a 4!!!

[solidsnakejej]

Bill is leaving and we now have Invest 92 out there

[solidsnakejej]

We have TS Danny

[solidsnakejej]

Invest 94

[solidsnakejej]

TS Erika



Waves over Africa

[solidsnakejej]

Been a quiet couple of months but now there is Hurricane Ida that looks like it'll be a threat.

[solidsnakejej]

Looks like this could turn into another Wilma.

[frosty]

I question if the waters are warm enough for that... Wilma hit over 200mph

Looks like high shear in the gulf also... she won't be a strong one when she hits.

[iSDK]

Originally Posted by curryking1

That doesn't look fun.

How thick do your windows have to be to withstand the pressure gradient from hurricane anyway?

Oh if you're like me you use this many copies of windows



... although back before Win98 SE i had to be careful this didn't happen during the storm.

[Alias]

I was wondering why this thread would've been bumped in November.


Wow.

[Hitman]

Last year was bad for storms everywhere.


I got stuck in a cat 4 that nearly impacted and then a strong cat 3 that impacted right where I was. Fuck that shit again, it made a mess.

[frosty]

looks like ida wants to come hang out in my back yard.

[Bryan]

None of this shit is going to touch me.

But I will have like three feet of snow everywhere here in about a month, so.. it all sucks in different ways.

[bobo_ess]

I have been receiving ice on my front step nowadays

[Hitman]

I got sunburnt bitches

[Paz]

How thick do your windows have to be to withstand the pressure gradient from hurricane anyway?

Doesn't work like that... you should know better.

[frosty]

oh yes, it does work like that. the pressure drop will cause your windows to burst from the inside out (the pressure in the center of a hurricane is very low). one person who rode out hurricane ike in a hotel on the beach told everyone on his floor to crack their sliding glass doors just before the storm hit. after the storm passed, their floor was the only one inhabitable, with the many of the rest of the guests stuck sleeping in the lobby because their windows exploded.

damn... intensified to a tropical storm and narrowed it's path on my back yard.

[Paz]

Oh no, it doesn't... the inside of almost all homes is not sealed, and pressure equalizes whether windows are opened or not. Glass breaks due to stress distributions caused by high wind velocity.

Hurricanes do have low pressure centers, but not extremely so. A couple hundred millibars AT MOST, which is enough to pop your ears, but not to shatter windows. "Pressure" damage from hurricanes and tornadoes is not actually due to the pressure gradients at all, it is due to the entrapment of wind currents under roofs and in alcoves on the exterior of homes, forming miniature high pressure pockets inside the house that eventually shears the roof off, which causes structural instability of the walls and eventual collapse.

Not trying to nitpick, but I hate it when an urban myth pervades so much so that it is "common knowledge". If the pressure of a hurricane is low enough to cause stress to unsealed homes, the last thing you need to worry about it opening your windows... I would concentrate instead on home insurance.

[solidsnakejej]

^^yep, wind getting into your house is the biggest problem.

Wonder what the possibility of Ida doing a 360 in the Gulf.

[LaLiLuLeLo]

We're well into November and we're staring down hurricanes? WTF.