By Paul Homewood
Sky have gone into full Goebbels mode with this pack of lies:
Heaven knows where they got “unprecedented” from. The headline was probably written even before landfall.
In fact it made landfall as a Cat 3, with sustained winds of 125 mph and central pressure of 949 MB:
There have been 46 other US landfalling hurricanes with 949 MB and lower:
https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/All_U.S._Hurricanes.html
Initial reports from Fox suggest that storm surge so far has been much less than forecast, though high tide has still to arrive. Maximum surge now is expected to be in the range of 7-11 ft:
![[Image of cumulative wind history]](https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT10/refresh/AL102023_peak_surge+png/151539_peak_surge.png)
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at5+shtml/151539.shtml?peakSurge#contents
Sky have resorted to the rapid intensification nonsense to make it appear to be an extreme event, claiming that it is due to climate change:
We simply do not have any reliable data prior to the satellite data to know whether this sort of rapid intensification is in any way unusual. What made Idalia harder to prepare for was the direction it took, as it ran straight north out of the Caribbean, after forming there as a tropical depression on Saturday.
Most Atlantic hurricanes are tracked across the ocean, even before they actually form, giving plenty of warning.
The bottom line is that Idalia was no different to dozens of other hurricanes which have hit the US in the past.
To pretend that it is unprecedented simply shows just how dishonest our media has become.
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August 30, 2023 at 10:30AM
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