{"id":333,"date":"2005-10-19T09:09:19","date_gmt":"2005-10-19T14:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=333"},"modified":"2005-10-19T09:09:19","modified_gmt":"2005-10-19T14:09:19","slug":"maybe-we-need-to-up-the-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2005\/10\/maybe-we-need-to-up-the-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe we need to up the scale"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Saffir-Simpson<\/a> scale only goes up to 5. Maybe it’s time to think about a 6, eh?<\/p>\n

From Weatherunderground.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Tracking Info For Hurricane Wilma<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Time<\/th>\nLat<\/th>\nLon<\/th>\nWind(mph)<\/th>\nPressure<\/th>\nStorm type<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
\n
\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21 GMT 10\/15\/05<\/td>\n17.6N <\/td>\n78.8W<\/td>\n30<\/td>\n1004<\/td>\nTropical Depression<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
03 GMT 10\/16\/05<\/td>\n17.0N<\/td>\n 79.0W<\/td>\n30<\/td>\n1003<\/td>\nTropical Depression<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
09 GMT 10\/16\/05<\/td>\n17.0N <\/td>\n79.3W<\/td>\n35<\/td>\n1003<\/td>\nTropical Depression<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15 GMT 10\/16\/05<\/td>\n17.1N <\/td>\n79.3W<\/td>\n35<\/td>\n1002<\/td>\nTropical Depression<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21 GMT 10\/16\/05 <\/td>\n17.7N<\/td>\n79.6W<\/td>\n35<\/td>\n1001<\/td>\nTropical Depression<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
03 GMT 10\/17\/05<\/td>\n17.6N<\/td>\n 79.7W<\/td>\n35<\/td>\n1001<\/td>\nTropical Depression<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
09 GMT 10\/17\/05<\/td>\n17.2N <\/td>\n79.7W<\/td>\n40<\/td>\n1000<\/td>\nTropical Storm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15 GMT 10\/17\/05<\/td>\n16.3N <\/td>\n80.0W<\/td>\n45<\/td>\n998<\/td>\nTropical Storm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21 GMT 10\/17\/05<\/td>\n15.8N <\/td>\n79.9W<\/td>\n50<\/td>\n989<\/td>\nTropical Storm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
03 GMT 10\/18\/05 <\/td>\n15.8N <\/td>\n80.2W<\/td>\n65<\/td>\n987<\/td>\nTropical Storm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
09 GMT 10\/18\/05 <\/td>\n15.7N<\/td>\n 80.0W<\/td>\n70<\/td>\n982<\/td>\nTropical Storm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15 GMT 10\/18\/05 <\/td>\n16.5N<\/td>\n 80.6W<\/td>\n75<\/td>\n977<\/td>\nCategory 1 Hurricane<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21 GMT 10\/18\/05<\/td>\n16.7N <\/td>\n81.5W<\/td>\n80<\/td>\n970<\/td>\nCategory 1 Hurricane<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
03 GMT 10\/19\/05<\/td>\n16.8N <\/td>\n82.1W<\/td>\n110<\/td>\n945<\/td>\nCategory 2 Hurricane<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
05 GMT 10\/19\/05<\/td>\n16.9N<\/td>\n 82.0W<\/td>\n150<\/td>\n901<\/td>\nCategory 4 Hurricane<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
09 GMT 10\/19\/05 <\/td>\n17.2N<\/td>\n 82.5W<\/td>\n175<\/td>\n884<\/td>\nCategory 5 Hurricane<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

\nWhat this means, boys and girls, is that in less than 24 hours Wilma went from being a Tropical Storm to being a Class 5 hurricane. She picked up more than 100 mph<\/abbr> in wind speed in under 30 hours.\n<\/p>\n

Hurricane season “officially” ends on December 1st (someone make sure the planet gets the memo, m’kay?). Time to learn the Greek alphabet.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Saffir-Simpson scale only goes up to 5. Maybe it’s time to think about a 6, eh? From Weatherunderground.com: Tracking Info For Hurricane Wilma Time Lat Lon Wind(mph) Pressure Storm type 21 GMT 10\/15\/05 17.6N 78.8W 30 1004 Tropical Depression 03 GMT 10\/16\/05 17.0N 79.0W 30 1003 Tropical Depression 09 GMT 10\/16\/05 17.0N 79.3W 35 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-thoughts","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}