Cat5 Hurricane Dorian hits Bahamas with 185mph winds, heading west

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https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at...start#contents

For some perspective, here are hurricane categories:

Five	≥ 157 mph
Four	130–156 mph
Three	111–129 mph
Two	96–110 mph
One	74–95 mph

Dorian is 185 mph currently. You could almost consider it a category 6 in my opinion.

The eye-wall of category-five hurricane Dorian now carries 185 mph winds outward 45 miles from center. This presents a 90-mile-wide buzzsaw of devastating impact. It cannot be overstated how dangerous this storm has become. Very few structures can withstand winds of that scale for any prolonged duration of time. [Hurricane Center Update]

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/09/01/catastrophic-185-mph-hurricane-dorian-makes-landfall-in-bahamas-east-florida-coast-be-alert/

[cheka.]

'they' said same thing about a storm that hit mexico a few years ago. minimal damage exposed the liars....again

[old steel]

Nasty.

https://twitter.com/IntelCrab/status...26806874411008

[Bigjon]

Drudge is claiming Dorian has wind speeds of 185 MPH

If that be the case, then when it makes landfall, wherever the eye lands there should be nothing but dirt left. No homes, no roads, no signs, no NOTHING left, except BARE SCORCHED EARTH.
If Dorian is really packing 185 mph winds, there will be only snapped off tree stumps left and no trees AT ALL, it will look like a nuclear aftermath minus the fires. Let's compare what they are claiming about Dorian to nuclear blast effects:
With a nuclear bomb, the initial blast wave is not what causes the most damage. What causes the damage and strips everything clean is a 200 mph wind that gets produced at ground level, and goes outwards (from let's say a 5 megaton bomb) for about 30 miles before it dies off. Everything in that zone will be GONE. If Dorian really is packing such winds, there will be nuclear apocalypse type damage. Not "destroyed homes" everywhere, Dorian ought to produce NOTHING LEFT, INCLUDING DESTROYED HOMES because they were entirely erased, EVERYWHERE.

There's no place to hide from such winds, the destruction should be scorched earth TOTAL. If anything recognizable is left where Dorian makes landfall, it will not be as claimed and if there's a lot left like "There's bob's house, wow, it is damaged bad" Dorian did not have 185 mph winds, no ifs or buts.

Let's put this in even more clear terms:
They are claiming Dorian is equal to the tornado that hit Joplin (an epic devastator tornado) except with a damage path 100+ miles wide. Check out this in depth analysis of the Joplin tornado, done by meteorological experts. By their numbers Dorian is outperforming the Joplin tornado significantly, plus doing it with a damage path 200 times as wide. If we don't see THAT kind of damage where Dorian makes landfall, across the entire length of a 2 hour drive, they lied about Dorian.

So we'll have to wait and see now . . . . .
FACE IT: EVERY HURRICANE FROM NOW ON IS GOING TO BE A CAT 4 OR 5

I will be precise about how they are fronting the scam: Back in the good old days, before anyone could measure winds up inside the hurricane, all the hurricane ratings were based on ground wind speed, which made sense because that's what matters. Either via destruction of intellect via common core or intentional scamming, in recent years (ever since the carbon tax went in) they have been using the highest wind speeds anywhere at any level to rate the hurricane. That's how they are claiming Dorian is cat 5. The wind map WILL show cat 5 wind speeds in Dorian but they don't count if they are not low enough to affect the ground. And it is flatly dishonest, we are not comparing apples to apples anymore, and if that's how they are going to do things, what does it mean when every category 1 can be read as a cat 5 if you throw procedure and precedent out the window?
What they are doing with Dorian is comparable to calling a funnel cloud, which never touches the ground, a full blown tornado, or claiming the fact that the jet stream has 300 MPH winds means the weather on the ground is going to be dangerous. Obviously with ground wind speeds of 90+ MPH now, people ought to get out of the way of Dorian but cat 5 it is not.
Dorian is FINALLY a strong cat 1, approaching cat 2.

As I said earlier, if any hurricane at all was coming I'd bug out. Maybe an exception for a borderline cat 1, maybe not.

If a hurricane is what it is advertised as, I have no problems with stating it. Dorian is going to make landfall as at least a cat 2 if it keeps building the way it is. Before this, it was not a hurricane and I had no reservations about stating that. Dorian's top sustained winds are now 92.4 mph and that's enough to do bad damage.
I am skeptical about Dorian being a genuine natural storm however.

WE NOW HAVE SOLID EVIDENCE DORIAN IS MAN MADE

Dorian is full of lightning. Here is proof natural hurricanes don't have it, at least not in abundance.
Dorian has LOTS of lighting, and you can see it here

Katrina, Rita, and Emily were also loaded with lightning. It was an anomaly. And Dorian having lightning the same way strongly implies someone is playing games.And it is not cooperating well, because the water is simply too cold after "the hottest year in recorded history".

Need I keep saying carbon tax?

[Bigjon]

Let's put Dorian in perspective:

This is the best call on this bluff I can think of: Compare Dorian to the Joplin tornado.

Let's put this in even more clear terms:They are claiming Dorian is equal to the tornado that hit Joplin (an epic devastator tornado) except with a damage path 100+ miles wide. Check out this in depth analysis of the Joplin tornado, done by meteorological experts. By their numbers Dorian is outperforming the Joplin tornado significantly, plus doing it with a damage path 200 times as wide. If we don't see THAT kind of damage where Dorian makes landfall, across the entire length of a 2 hour drive, they lied about Dorian.

I have obviously captured that article because they'll back wipe it once they figure out it blows the lid off Dorian. The damage Dorian did in the Bahamas was nowhere near as bad as the Joplin tornado, with 185 mph sustained winds and gusts to 220 as claimed, Dorian should have totally out performed the Joplin tornado, which according to the NWS had max wind gusts of 208 mph, but experts have concluded the Joplin winds never broke 200 even in the worst gusts. Compare the Joplin damage to the Dorian damage. Dorian is NOT EVEN CLOSE, which proves the cat 5 rating is a BIG FAT LIE.What they are saying about Dorian makes it an F5 tornado more than 100 miles across. The devastation should be absolute, with the ground scoured to oblivion and not a trace of human habitation left AT ALL.

THE VERDICT IS IN - THEY LIED ABOUT DORIAN

Dorian hit the Bahamas and did cat 1 damage, just as I said, with the worst video being of the ocean shore. Away from the ocean virtually every house is intact and some are not damaged at all, not even the shingles after a direct hit. That's not possible with a cat 5.

Look at this video from the Bahamas

Dorian scored a direct hit here. And the damage is typical of a strong cat 1. No hurricane is play time, cat 1's do significant damage. Note in the video:There are many houses TOTALLY UNHURT, not even missing shingles. There are lots of houses missing shingles. There are a couple that got wrecked. Those probably had termite damage. It is obvious 90+ mph winds hit, but it is also obvious those winds were NOT 185 mph as stated.

The Bahamas have CAT 1 DAMAGE after taking a direct hit from "cat 5" Dorian

Except for where the ocean did the damage, houses in perfect line of wind are still standing, missing only their shingles. That's cat 1 damage.

[Horn]

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at...start#contents

For some perspective, here are hurricane categories:

Five	≥ 157 mph
Four	130–156 mph
Three	111–129 mph
Two	96–110 mph
One	74–95 mph

Dorian is 185 mph currently. You could almost consider it a category 6 in my opinion.

The eye-wall of category-five hurricane Dorian now carries 185 mph winds outward 45 miles from center. This presents a 90-mile-wide buzzsaw of devastating impact. It cannot be overstated how dangerous this storm has become. Very few structures can withstand winds of that scale for any prolonged duration of time. [Hurricane Center Update]

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/09/01/catastrophic-185-mph-hurricane-dorian-makes-landfall-in-bahamas-east-florida-coast-be-alert/

That wind map Big Jon posted has 90mph winds max.

https://earth.nullschool.net/#curren...-77.889,26.967


Weather channel still reporting as category 5

https://s.w-x.co/map-assets/generic-...calIcons/5.png
Category 5 HurricaneDorian

• Forecast:Mon, Sep 02, 12:00 pm
• Moving WNW at 5mph

• Winds:160 mph
• Gusts:195 mph

https://weather.com/weather/radar/in...ee01d8?&zoom=7

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5:00pm Hurricane Dorian, Category 4, Stationary Over Grand Bahama Island – FL, GA, SC, NC Monitoring…

Posted on September 2, 2019 by sundance
It’s impossible to find words to describe what the people in Grand Bahama island must be going through. More than 24 hours inside a 90-mile wide buzzsaw of sustained cat-5/cat-4 winds, stationary over a populated island, is beyond comprehension.
Two, perhaps three, complete tide cycles; plus 20 feet of storm surge, plus the catastrophic wind must be completely overwhelming the land mass of the island… A topography changing event. We pray for those who still have hours left amid this storm.
https://theconservativetreehouse.fil...pg?w=640&h=451
At 500 PM EDT (2100 UTC), the eye of Hurricane Dorian was located near latitude 26.8 North, longitude 78.4 West. Dorian has become nearly stationary this afternoon. A slow westward to west-northwestward motion is expected to resume overnight and continue into early Tuesday. A turn toward the northwest is forecast by late Tuesday, with a northeastward motion forecast to begin by Wednesday night.
On this track, the core of extremely dangerous Hurricane Dorian will continue to pound Grand Bahama Island into Tuesday morning. The hurricane will then move dangerously close to the Florida east coast late Tuesday through Wednesday evening and then move dangerously close to the Georgia and South Carolina coasts on Wednesday night and Thursday.
An Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft has found that maximum sustained winds are near 145 mph (230 km/h) with higher gusts. Dorian is a category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Although gradual weakening is forecast,
Dorian is expected to remain a powerful hurricane during the next couple of days.
Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 45 miles (75 km) from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 150 miles (240 km). (more)
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[PatColo]

Weather channel still reporting as category 5

Cat 5 hurricane porn sells lots of big pharma snake oil ads

Storm Reporter Flattened by Flying Flounder!

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This thing has been sitting over the Grand Bahama island for like 36 hours.

Can't image what spending 36 hours inside of this monster would be like.

[Cebu_4_2]

This thing has been sitting over the Grand Bahama island for like 36 hours.

Can't image what spending 36 hours inside of this monster would be like.

Where would you go? Not like they have safe basements.