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Comments on: Dr Masters Wonders https://whynow.dumka.us/2012/09/02/dr-masters-wonders/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Sun, 02 Sep 2012 17:03:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2012/09/02/dr-masters-wonders/comment-page-1/#comment-60463 Sun, 02 Sep 2012 17:03:12 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=26669#comment-60463 In reply to Steve Bates.

I remember Ike and the pictures you posted, Steve, I just didn’t remember it in this context because it got its wind field the old fashioned way, by spinning up to Category 4. It was very normal in its development, as that is what Cat 4 storms do – push a lot of atmosphere. Isaac didn’t spin up. I saw that I commented that Ike had the potential of rapid intensification at any point in the Gulf.

Going back in my archives and looking at the numbers, I now see what Dr Masters was talking about, because it still had a 944mb pressure after the max winds slowed, and it was acting resistant to the effect of a trough in the Gulf. This may be the new normal for storms in the Gulf – slow moving, huge wind fields, super-low pressure, but lower than expected max winds, and resistance to steering influences.

I know what you mean about the traffic lights. They were down for weeks after Opal, but they replaced the old ones with a new type rated for 200mph with a separate power system of some kind.

The storms of my youth lasted hours, not days.

]]> By: Steve Bates https://whynow.dumka.us/2012/09/02/dr-masters-wonders/comment-page-1/#comment-60461 Sun, 02 Sep 2012 05:57:21 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=26669#comment-60461 Ike had an incredible span. And trust me… it hit hard enough, lasted forever, and knocked out more power around Houston than any storm I can remember: you could watch the horizon if you dared; the flashes occurred every few minutes for a couple of hours. Ike caused more wind damage in my neighborhood (knocked-over brick walls, bent 100′ posts under signs, signs themselves of various materials blown out, etc. But the really scary time was not the noisy middle of Ike (though I admit that whatever occasionally vibrated Stella’s apt. door was pretty bad) but the aftermath: traffic lights out for a couple weeks, some of them dangling in the middle of the road, drivers crazy at lightless intersections, glass everywhere, stinking rotten food in dumpsters, damned few grocery stores able to open, no internet access within our reach, etc., etc. I don’t want any more storms like Ike.

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