Hurricane Michael Claims

October 11, 2018

By Paul Homewood

Tony Heller questions whether Hurricane Michael was as powerful as claimed, in the following  post:

A few weeks ago climate scientists said climate change is making hurricanes slow down, stall and rain a lot like Florence. This week they say climate change causes fast moving hurricanes like Michael.

I was watching the storm and the commentary this morning, and long before landfall Michael was officially declared to be a catastrophic category four hurricane (just below category five), the most powerful to ever make landfall “in that region” – and the third most intense in US history after the 1935 Labor Day hurricane and Camille in 1969.  It was a genuine pre-hurricane category four propaganda storm.

The NOAA wind gauge at Panama City didn’t back up any of the claims.  It showed a peak sustained wind speed of  62 knots before the eyewall arrived, and minimum pressure of 937.5 mb. Neither remotely close to the hype.

Meteorological Observations – NOAA Tides & Currents

The pictures of damage I’ve seen don’t compare to other “officially less intense” hurricanes, like Andrew in 1992.

Or the 1926 Miami hurricane.

Read the full post here:

https://realclimatescience.com/2018/10/something-bad-happened-so-turn-off-your-brain/

This is not the first time that official claims of wind speeds do not stack up with what has been recorded on the ground.

I shall look at this in more depth next week.