Apparently shooting a hurricane won't deter it

[cnelsen]

According the meteorologists at the Pasco County Sheriff's Office in Florida, hurricanes don't care if you shoot at them.

Florida authorities have issued another stern warning about Hurricane Irma: Shooting bullets into the storm won't help keep you safe.

The Pasco County Sheriff's Office tweeted late Saturday: "DO NOT shoot weapons @ (hashtag) Irma. You won't make it turn around (and) it will have very dangerous side effects."​

Those hurricanes will just keep coming. The sheriff was responding to a Facebook page put up by two, presumably, elderly Jewish residents.

The sheriff's office, which is in the Tampa Bay-area, was responding to a Facebook event page created two Florida men inviting people to shoot at Irma.

The page reads: "YO SO THIS GOOFY ... LETS SHOW IRMA THAT WE SHOOT FIRST ..."​

It was probably just some of that famous Jewish humor, but, nevertheless, a whole shit load of aged former New Yorkers signed on.

The invitation presumably was a joke, but 80,000 people indicated they were "going" or "interested" in the event.

In a tweet early Sunday, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office asked the thousands of people who had shared the page to also share their request for volunteers needed at hurricane shelters.​

 

[TheOldSchool]

I bet that Sheriff's never tried it before

 

[Fenton Lum]

Sherriff Joe would.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Sherriff Joe would.

Goddamn right

 

[Missourian]

Hurricane Irma spawns hilarious Facebook events

The shoot Irma is just one of many humorous anti-Irma gatherings...

 

[Rustic]

According the meteorologists at the Pasco County Sheriff's Office in Florida, hurricanes don't care if you shoot at them.

Florida authorities have issued another stern warning about Hurricane Irma: Shooting bullets into the storm won't help keep you safe.

The Pasco County Sheriff's Office tweeted late Saturday: "DO NOT shoot weapons @ (hashtag) Irma. You won't make it turn around (and) it will have very dangerous side effects."​

Those hurricanes will just keep coming. The sheriff was responding to a Facebook page put up by two, presumably, elderly Jewish residents.

The sheriff's office, which is in the Tampa Bay-area, was responding to a Facebook event page created two Florida men inviting people to shoot at Irma.

The page reads: "YO SO THIS GOOFY ... LETS SHOW IRMA THAT WE SHOOT FIRST ..."​

It was probably just some of that famous Jewish humor, but, nevertheless, a whole shit load of aged former New Yorkers signed on.

The invitation presumably was a joke, but 80,000 people indicated they were "going" or "interested" in the event.

In a tweet early Sunday, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office asked the thousands of people who had shared the page to also share their request for volunteers needed at hurricane shelters.​

It Was black lives matter, they think such things work

 

[Rustic]

According the meteorologists at the Pasco County Sheriff's Office in Florida, hurricanes don't care if you shoot at them.

Florida authorities have issued another stern warning about Hurricane Irma: Shooting bullets into the storm won't help keep you safe.

The Pasco County Sheriff's Office tweeted late Saturday: "DO NOT shoot weapons @ (hashtag) Irma. You won't make it turn around (and) it will have very dangerous side effects."​

Those hurricanes will just keep coming. The sheriff was responding to a Facebook page put up by two, presumably, elderly Jewish residents.

The sheriff's office, which is in the Tampa Bay-area, was responding to a Facebook event page created two Florida men inviting people to shoot at Irma.

The page reads: "YO SO THIS GOOFY ... LETS SHOW IRMA THAT WE SHOOT FIRST ..."​

It was probably just some of that famous Jewish humor, but, nevertheless, a whole shit load of aged former New Yorkers signed on.

The invitation presumably was a joke, but 80,000 people indicated they were "going" or "interested" in the event.

In a tweet early Sunday, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office asked the thousands of people who had shared the page to also share their request for volunteers needed at hurricane shelters.​

It Was black lives matter, they think such things work

And Antifa... both being Cowardly racist groups

 

[waltky]

September Is Peak Hurricane Season. Why Is That?...

September Is Peak Hurricane Season. Why Is That?
September 14, 2018 • September 10 is the day you're statistically most likely to find a tropical cyclone somewhere in the Atlantic basin. The reason has to do with both wind and water.[/i]

Hurricane Florence made landfall Friday morning in North Carolina. While people along large swathes of the Eastern Seaboard have been dreading the storm for days, you can say one thing: it arrived right on time. We are smack-dab in the middle of Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to November 30. Nearly all tropical storm activity in the Atlantic basin occurs between those dates. The season peaks between August and October, with September 10 as the day you're statistically most likely to find a tropical cyclone somewhere in the Atlantic basin. Why? The answer has to do with both wind and water.

A satellite image shows Hurricane Florence on the eastern coast of the United States​

Wind shear is the variation of the wind's speed or direction over a short distance within the atmosphere. Stronger wind shear in the spring fades through June and July, and by late August, wind shear reaches a minimum. That's too bad, because wind shear can prevent weather systems from organizing into a tropical cyclone. Then there's the temperature of the ocean. The water temperature in the deep tropics rises as summer goes on – the result of sunny days, warmer air temperatures, and more moisture in the atmosphere. Warmer ocean temperatures drive greater storm activity. Lack of wind shear in the atmosphere? Check. Tropical waters as warm as a bathtub? Check.

Put those together, and waves off of Africa can strengthen into a hurricane like Florence. "Hurricanes start simply with the evaporation of warm seawater, which pumps water into the lower atmosphere," NOAA explains. "This humid air is then dragged aloft when converging winds collide and turn upwards. At higher altitudes, water vapor starts to condense into clouds and rain, releasing heat that warms the surrounding air, causing it to rise as well. As the air far above the sea rushes upward, even more warm moist air spirals in from along the surface to replace it."

he number of tropical storm and hurricane days for the Atlantic Basin spikes in mid-September.​

In its most recent forecast released last month, forecasters at NOAA's Climate Prediction Center said that odds were good for a below-normal Atlantic hurricane season. They predicted nine to 13 named storms, four to seven hurricanes, and two or fewer major hurricanes during the entirety of the season. To date, this hurricane season has produced ten named storms, of which four were hurricanes. So far, Florence is the only one classified as major. Despite Florence's outsize presence at the moment, NOAA says its forecast from last month still seems on target. "This year, despite the recent uptick in activity, the overall activity remains typical of a less active season," Gerry Bell, NOAA's lead hurricane season forecaster, wrote in an email to NPR. "The recent flare-up in activity is associated with an enhanced west African monsoon system, which has been helping to fuel the development of storms over the far eastern Atlantic."

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