>>10397391
they used to dump barrels of radioactive waste
out in the deep oceans
"The Answer to Pollution is Dilution"
was the motto
welp
after 60 or so years
the barrels have rusted and now are leaking
other than that
hurricanes have always happened
and a bit of research reveals
that it is the BACK SIDE of the storm
that is the worst …
not the front side
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather/hurricane/article171504082.html
Miami could get hit by the ‘dirty side’ of Irma. Here’s what that means
BY KATE IRBY
SEPTEMBER 06, 2017 11:22 AM , UPDATED AUGUST 27
There’s no pleasant side of a hurricane, but there is a “dirty side.” Others refer to it more simply as “the bad side” or “the side you don’t want to be on.”
And Miami is at risk for being on that side for Hurricane Irma.
The dirty side is generally known as the right side of the storm when looking at it from above, but it’s more accurate to say it’s on the right side of whatever direction the storm is moving, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. So if the storm is moving west, as Irma currently is, the north side is the dirty side. If it’s moving north, as the National Hurricane Center predicts Irma will turn once it’s under Florida, the east side is the dirty side.
The right side of the storm is worse due to the direction of hurricane winds, according to NOAA. Hurricane winds rotate counterclockwise, so the strength of the storm on the dirty side is the hurricane’s wind speed plus its forward velocity.
The absolute worst spot in a hurricane is on the dirty side closest to the eye of the storm, according to NOAA.
“A hurricane with a 90 mph winds while stationary would have winds up to 100 mph on the right side and only 80 mph on the left side if it began moving (any direction) at 10 mph,” the NOAA website says by example.
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http://www.hurricanescience.org/science/science/hurricanemovement/
Hurricane Movement
The movement of a hurricane from one location to another is known as hurricane propagation. In general, hurricanes are steered by global winds. The prevailing winds that surround a hurricane, also known as the environmental wind field, are what guide a hurricane along its path. The hurricane propagates in the direction of this wind field, which also factors into the system’s propagation speed. While each storm makes its own path, the movement of every hurricane is affected by a combination of factors, as described below.
In the tropics, where hurricanes form, easterly winds called the trade winds steer a hurricane towards the west. In the Atlantic basin, storms are carried by these trade winds from the coast of Africa, where they often develop (see Hurricane Genesis:
Birth of a Hurricane), westward towards the Caribbean Sea and the North American coasts.
Embedded within the global winds are large-scale high and low-pressure systems.
The clockwise rotation (in the Northern Hemisphere) of air associated with high-pressure systems often cause hurricanes to stray from their initially east-to-west movement and curve northward. One such high-pressure system, often referred to as the Bermuda High (Azores High) (depending on its location) or more generally as a subtropical ridge, often dominates the North Atlantic Ocean. Atlantic hurricanes typically propagate around the periphery of the subtropical ridge, riding along its strongest winds. If the high is positioned to the east, then hurricanes generally propagate northeastward around the high’s western edge into the open Atlantic Ocean without making landfall. However, if the high is positioned to the west and extends far enough to the south, storms are blocked from curving north and forced to continue west, putting a large bulls-eye on Florida, Cuba, and the Gulf of Mexico, as was the case during much of the 2004 and 2005 Atlantic hurricane seasons.