www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/world/americas/hurricane-beryl-grenada-carriacou.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4E0.A1RH.mDmeM6jb1mUN&smid=url-share
Hurricane Beryl Flattens Grenada’s Carriacou Island (Gift Article)
ClimateOne death was reported in Grenada’s capital, St. George’s, after a tree fell on a house. “This hits home,” Mr. Mitchell said.
Just a little gallows humour.
Tree leaves really freely
Officials are stumped.
Hurricane Beryl continues to barrel onwards
There is a silver lining: apple doesn't fall far from the tree
Submission statement:
This is collapse related because the behavior of this superlatively early-season hurricane is an indication of what climate change is (and will increasingly) do to Western Atlantic communities.
Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell of Grenada said that Carriacou had been “flattened” in just half an hour and that government officials also expected “extreme” damage on the neighboring island of Petite Martinique. . . . Beryl was an anomaly in what is already an unusually busy storm season, which extends until the end of November. According to forecasters, it is the third major hurricane ever in the Atlantic Ocean in June — and the first time a Category 4 has materialized this early there in the season.
“Incredible doesn’t cut it. This truly is something else of a hurricane,” Noah Bergren, a meteorologist for Fox 35 Orlando in Florida, said on X. “Will be a fast moving storm, but for a few hours will be just hell on earth.”
The storm was also historic for the short time it took to strengthen from a tropical depression to a major hurricane — 42 hours — a direct result of the above-average sea surface temperatures. The quick escalation was a feat recorded only six other times in Atlantic hurricane history.
It’s only a few mph short of being a Cat 5, according to a CNN article I saw. If it becomes one it’ll be the first Cat 5 in July since 2005 I believe and the earliest one on record.
Edit: It now is one apparently.
It is now officially a category 5 as of 0300 UTC.
Woah.
Earliest one ever, by about 2 weeks.
17 daxs
You like daxs?
Ezri is OK, but Judzia was the best Dax.
I hope they rebuild their homes to resemble bunkers. This is likely the new normal.
Tempting as this advice is, the more practical response is to go the complete opposite. Look at how homes are traditionally built on islands and lean into it.
If you build a $10m mansion bunker, it's going to get it's shit pushed in. You can't build a house with windows and doors you like living in that is going to withstand 150mph winds and debris. Even if the walls are reinforced, you're going to loose windows, flood it and have to scrap it.
Far better to build something cheap that can be replaced on a regular schedule. Instead of being a flooded and moldy concrete shell after a storm it will be a completely clear lot, but it will be cheaper to replace entirely than to rehab your previous mcmansion.
Make the roofs arched. Archie Bunkers.
I've been saying it today in the tropical weather sub, but this is probably the craziest thing we've seen produced from our climate so far. Its pretty hard to understate how utterly bonkers this is. Hurricane Emily held the previous record for earliest Category 5 hurricane, set on July 17, 2005. We're beating records set in 2005 by SIXTEEN days. The most batshit crazy hurricane season of anyone's lifetime unless they lived in 1933 just had a record smashed, obliterated, trampled on, and laughed at by a hurricane in a historically hostile environment for hurricanes. Hurricanes are not supposed to blow up this early in this part of the Atlantic, they just aren't.
I can't imagine what this season will bring. Unless we just get lucky as hell, its gonna be a nightmare.
September/October is gonna be wild…..
Saw something earlier that said the ocean temps are currently hotter now than during the normal peak of hurricane season in the Atlantic.
Parts of the gulf were hotter than the recommended safe temp for a hot tub last year, wonder if it will get that warm out where hurricanes are forming...
A sea hotter than a hot tub...
As someone from the Netherlands that sounds completely alien to me.
I can't imagine what the fish and marine life are going through.. I hope they survive.
They are dying like us.
"This shit sucks."
- Fish, probably.
Isn’t a large portion of the Gulf of Mexico a dead zone?
A significant portion, but probably only in the single digits.
Yes. Florida's beaches were clocking 102-103F last summer.
The rapid intensification of some recent storms is really worrying. Beryl blew right past the most sophisticated computer models. If this is a preview of the new normal, folks are going to have less and less time to prepare/evacuate. For example, it takes 72 hours to evacuate New Orleans. Beryl went from a tropical depression to a major cat 3 hurricane in 42 hours, cat 4 hurricane at about 48 hours. Bad things are coming.
The one in Acapulco last year comes to mind with the unexpected intensification.
Otis. All of the models failed.
Is there a reason computer models can’t predict this as accurately? Are they based on accumulated data, or is there a way for these models to factor in things like extreme ocean temperatures, that way a rise to CAT 5 like this can actually be predicted? I’ve noticed it seems like lots of weather prediction systems seem to not be reporting accurately anymore, from forecasts to radar, especially when it comes to storms.
My sorry ass down here in Puerto Rico is slipping into an existential crisis
"Well, it's a start..."
Neptune by Tuesday
I fucking wish. At least then it would be cold
Jesus all those islands in the Caribbean basin are going to keep getting hit by ‘historic’ storms as things ramp up
Grenada is also normally “immune” to hurricanes. They very rarely hit there as it’s too far south, so it’s not something they would expect either. Those that do hit tend to be very early in their lifecycle without much buildup yet. This must have been terrible for many.
I think it's just a countdown now to them becoming unliveable, as they heat up as well.
Im glad I’ll be part of history! Wait… hold no I take it back! We’re so fucked
They will quickly run out of cash to keep rebuilding. At which point much of the rest of the economy goes down the drain.
I spoke with my father the other day pleading with him to sell his condo in Naples Florida before it's too late but at his age, being 70 now he just has this blasé attitude that everything will be fine based on nothing other than it has been so far since he bought it ten years ago.
I keep asking him why he thinks all of the insurance companies are pulling out of the area and we discussed how close hurricane Ian came to devastating his area but these boomers just have this complete and utter lack of comprehending that just because we've gotten away with destroying the planet in just about every possible way up until this point that things are finally coming to a head.
It's just so ironic to me that the very generation that created the hippie love and peace movement ended up being the ones who have helped utterly destroy this planet the most. The only explanation I have been able to come up with is the amount of lead poisoning they were subjected to has caused far too much brain damage to allow for critical thinking and for some reason switched their minds to a never ending obsession to hoard wealth since just about every single person I've known and met from that generation seems to have an exorbitant amount of wealth yet still seem to be focused on nothing more than acquiring more. These thoughts have led me to coin my own name for that generation out of pure frustration and that is "lead heads" and they've completely doomed us all.
Gen X may have actually gotten the worst of the lead, perhaps an issue continued by the decisions of the lead heads you’ve affectionately named here. Just goes to show how easy it is for generations to wrap up entire succeeding generations in even more of their bullshit.
I think you mean exorbitant not exuberant. But I still upvote you!
Thanks for pointing that out my friend, I've replaced the word.
maybe his wealth is full of energy?
It's just part of the human condition. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias
I visited Grenada long time ago and found it to be a treasure, have amazing memories of a beautiful place and wonderful people who did the best they could with very little. Flying there and back was also memorable, most turbulent flights ever, was pretty scary. I’m sad to see this, but know it is just the beginning.
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