In the Race
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If I want to get somewhere else, I must blog twice as fast as that!
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the Red Queen's Race...
In1988 Gilbert Was A Force To Be Reckoned With
By Janet Evans
Saturday, Sep 13 2008, 11:15 AM
Guy Reynolds, MCT HURRICANE IKE
Bill Murphy, second from right, waits with three rescuers for a boat to pull them to safety after Murphy's
wife Barbara and two others were rescued by a Coast Guard helicopter in High Island, Texas, Friday,
September 12, 2008, as Hurricane Ike moves toward Texas.
With Hurricane Ike hitting hard today, and land and sea being pummeled once again storm, after storm…it’s interesting to note that this date, twenty years ago, another hurricane hit the area...in the Caribbean, and ended up in Texas. It devastated the Bahamas and Mexico and is considered one of the 12 deadliest hurricanes.
"Hurricane Gilbert had the lowest pressure ever recorded in the history of the Western Hemisphere today, making Gilbert the strongest recorded hurricane in that part of the globe until it was surpassed by Hurricane Wilma in 2005. "By almost any measure, Hurricane Gilbert is already the most intense hurricane on record, and it is still gaining force," explained The Post Standard on September 14, 1988. "Low barometric pressure at the center gives a hurricane its strength. Gilbert's pressure dropped to 26 13 late Tuesday the lowest ever recorded.”
You may view two newspaper articles from 1988 September 13th and 14th of 1988 telling of Hurricane Gilbert's impact on the Bahama's and Mexico:
Hurricane Gilbert pounds Jamaica, Moves Westward.pdf Daily Herald, Sept. 13. 1988
Hurricane Gilbert Targets Mexico.pdf Post-Standard, Sept. 14, 1988
also
Hurricane Gilbert...this Day In History
It’s believed that global warming is causing hurricanes to become more powerful. Does that theory hold water?
"The theory that global warming may be contributing to stronger hurricanes in the Atlantic over the past 30 years is bolstered by a new study led by a Florida State University researcher. The study will be published in the Sept. 4 edition of the journal Nature."
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"As seas warm, the ocean has more energy that can be converted to tropical cyclone wind," Elsner said. "Our results do not prove the heat-engine theory. We just show that the data are quite consistent with it."
Read the article from Environmental news Network HERE
