How Hurricane Helene morphed into a life-changing storm | Jeff's Climate Classroom

[@SEAQUEST-R]

What a difference 3 days make! CAT 4-5, OMG. Think it's time to learn the names of some W. African Wind elementals [OYA!]. RESPECT the Ocean.

[@GetaLife133]

Why did the NOAA make meteorologists sign NDA's. ?

[@ashlaunicaalpari4584]

I live in a Mandatory Evac zone A in Chasshowiska Fl about 20 mins from Crystal River Fl. I found it odd that no one evacuated during this storm. When asking the locals they all just said… it doesn’t flood and has never flooded out here even for the famous No Name Storm years ago. The take away is…. People get told soo much to evacuate with no actual flooding that they just don’t listen anymore. With that said, the locals were right…. No flooding out here. 🤷‍♀️

[@74the_magpie]

Katrina went as far north as Wisconsin and never saw this much rain just wind. Very strange. Btw fema is broke.

[@auburnjewels2]

41 minutes of garbage. I guess he missed the class when they talked about the Fujiwhara effect??? Stop pushing the "cliiiimate change" garbage. Smh.

[@patbarker4699]

Great post. 41 minutes of leftwing garbage. But what would u expect from NBC?

[@theherseyfamily6628]

The interaction between a tropical storm and an atmospheric weather system is more common than the Fujiwhara Effect. Weather systems are common, regularly moving through the country and providing weather changes. "Helene "danced,” but not with another hurricane or tropical storm, said Gus Alaka, director of the Hurricane Research Division at NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Lab. Instead, Helene responded to the effects of a low-pressure weather system to its northwest. That interaction occurred in the upper levels of the atmosphere, where commercial jets fly, and not at surface level. That means it did not technically undergo the Fujiwhara Effect. The combination of the weather event to the northwest, and the high pressure system to the northeast, created a fast-moving “conveyor belt” for Helene, steered it and ultimately forced it to a standstill over Tennessee, northern Georgia and lower Appalachia, Alaka said."

[@freeheeler09]

Auburn, you deniers can’t argue with physics, and the physics of climate change are very basic and well understood. Carbon dioxide, meth and nitrous oxide are the three primary greenhouse gases. The atmospheric concentrations of these gases have increased dramatically in the past 50 years. And, our human population increases and we burn more fossil fuels every year. So, the atmosphere and oceans get hotter. Hotter air and oceans mean that storms have more energy and carry more water. So, hurricanes are doing more damage. Basic physics. Understood by over 100 years. You deniers are like flat earthers. Your agenda won’t allow you to accept facts.

[@freeheeler09]

Pat, science isn’t left or right wing. Science is a process for testing ideas about how things work on Earth. The scientific process for studying climate is fundamentally similar to the scientific processes that led to the production of the computer or phone you are typing on now. Ask yourself this. Who benefits from convincing you that science works to produce your phone, and the medicines you take, but not for learning about the climate?

[@ashlaunicaalpari4584]

Just because you don’t like something doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Rather any of us like it or not, climate change is real and is going to alter how we live on this earth.