It is simply too hot. The air is hot and the ocean is hot, especially in the small seas such as the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. The seas won't cool down anytime soon. The hurricanes are sending heat into the water. Why would anyone think the water is going to become cooler with high amounts of greenhouse gases in the troposphere of Earth?
September 19, 2017
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Intellicast radar and satellite (click here for 2 hour loop - thank you)
Maria
14.20 -58.40 09/18/00Z 75 979 HURRICANE-1
14.60 -59.50 09/18/06Z 80 977 HURRICANE-1
14.70 -60.10 09/18/12Z 105 959 HURRICANE-3
15.10 -60.70 09/18/18Z 115 950 HURRICANE-4
15.30 -61.10 09/18/18Z 140 925 HURRICANE-5
15.50 -61.40 09/19/00Z 140 924 HURRICANE-5
16.00 -62.30 09/19/06Z 135 934 HURRICANE-4
Hurricane Maria devastated the island of Dominica with a population just under 75,000 people. That is a population about the size of Gary, Indiana or Camden, New Jersey.
September 19, 2017
By Alex Johnson, Yuliya Talmazan, Rima Abdelkader and Jason Cumming
Hurricane Maria (click here) left a trail of destruction as it hit the Caribbean island of Dominica as a Category 5 storm and then battered Guadeloupe with powerful winds early Tuesday.
Forecasters warned that the storm could leave some parts of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands uninhabitable for months.
Roosevelt Skerrit, the prime minister of Dominica, wrote on Facebook that his roof was gone, that his home was flooded and that he was "at the complete mercy of the hurricane" after Maria made landfall Monday night. A few minutes later, the politician reported that he had been rescued....
While there will be a death and missing population as these storms continue to rage in the Atlantic, the cost to rebuild will not be enormous compared to the costs in Texas and Florida.
These islands need BETTER solutions for the people. The homes and/or business buildings have to be rethought. Perhaps rather than many wood framed homes across the small island countries, there should be a better consolidated city made of brick and rebar with several stories of apartments/homes. The skyscrapers in Florida that withstood Irma are a good example of what may very well be far safer living options for these island communities. I think some research would be appropriate.
I don't have to address what is going to happen with Maria. It is another powerful storm in the Atlantic and that means something automatically these days.
