Hacker News with Generative AI: Hurricanes

In shallow waters, cruise ships can churn up as much sediment as a hurricane (wlrn.org)
When cruise ships lumber into Key West’s shallow harbor, they can sometimes churn up a storm of sediment more potent than a hurricane, new monitoring by the city shows.

Environmental Impact, Cruise Ships, Key West, Sediment, Hurricanes

25 points by pseudolus 48 days ago | 7 comments

The new climate math on hurricanes (nautil.us)
For the first time, we can calculate how much climate change impacts a single storm’s severity.

Climate Change, Hurricanes, Science

50 points by dnetesn 51 days ago | 55 comments

How much has climate change goosed hurricane wind strength? (tampabay.com)
Human-caused climate change made Atlantic hurricanes about 18 miles per hour stronger in the last six years, a new scientific study found Wednesday.

Climate Change, Hurricanes, Science, Environment, Weather

3 points by howard941 55 days ago | 0 comments

Hurricane Helene Power Outage Visualization (github.com/yeetbruises)
This project was developed in Python using various packages like Selenium, GeoPandas, and Shapely. I made in one go over 24 hours. It started when I came across an interesting data source on USAToday's website (Source 2) and built a Selenium scraper to compile the data into a CSV file. Using Pandas, I processed the CSV and linked the county names to a shapefile of U.S. counties from Source 1.

Data Visualization, Python, Hurricanes

3 points by brightball 86 days ago | 0 comments

Flesh-eating bacteria cases rise in Florida after hurricanes Helene and Milton (cnn.com)

Florida, Bacteria, Hurricanes, Health, News

13 points by rntn 90 days ago | 0 comments

Florida domed homes have survived category 5 hurricanes (bbc.com)
As Florida has been hit by several devastating hurricanes, homes designed to withstand these extreme storms have gone through a serious test.

Florida, Hurricanes, Architecture, Weather

8 points by Brajeshwar 92 days ago | 3 comments

Florida domed homes have survived category 5 hurricanes (bbc.com)
As Florida has been hit by several devastating hurricanes, homes designed to withstand these extreme storms have gone through a serious test.

Florida, Hurricanes, Architecture, Climate Change, Engineering

7 points by dxs 92 days ago | 0 comments

Climate change significantly boosted Milton's destructive winds, scientists say (apnews.com)

Climate Change, Science, Weather, Hurricanes

10 points by MilnerRoute 97 days ago | 0 comments

Amid hurricanes, the chemtrail conspiracy theory has its moment in the sun (cnn.com)

Hurricanes, Conspiracy Theories, Weather, Climate Change

6 points by ChumpGPT 98 days ago | 2 comments

What if you can't afford to flee a hurricane? (vox.com)
Even when a life-threatening hurricane is headed your way, there are many reasons why you might stay put. You might have dependent family members who can’t leave due to disabilities or other health-related reasons; you might not have reliable transportation to get to a safer area, and what’s more, no gas to get there. Sometimes, you simply refuse to leave your home and everything you own behind.

Hurricanes, Natural Disasters, Social Issues, Poverty

21 points by lr0 98 days ago | 24 comments

Climate change makes hurricanes more destructive (edf.org)
As our climate warms, we’re experiencing stronger winds, higher storm surges and record rainfalls during hurricane season — which is also why these storms are becoming more destructive and costly.

Climate Change, Hurricanes, Natural Disasters

14 points by LopRabbit 101 days ago | 4 comments

Hurricane Milton explodes into a powerful Cat 5 storm as it heads for Florida (theconversation.com)
Hurricane Milton went from barely hurricane strength to a dangerous Category 5 storm in less than 24 hours as it headed across the Gulf of Mexico toward Florida.

Weather, Hurricanes, Florida, Natural Disasters

44 points by gnabgib 102 days ago | 25 comments

Hurricane devastates quartz mines critical for semiconductor manufacturing (tomshardware.com)

Hurricanes, Semiconductors, Mining, Natural Disasters

3 points by geuds 109 days ago | 1 comments

Why Appalachia flooded so from Helene's remnants (scientificamerican.com)
Hurricane Helene hit Florida’s western coast as a Category 4 hurricane on September 26 and was accompanied by serious storm surges—but the damage didn’t end there.

Hurricanes, Weather, Flooding, Appalachia

31 points by anigbrowl 109 days ago | 20 comments

As Florida Storms Worsen, Some in Tampa Bay Wonder: Is Living There Worth It? (nytimes.com)
Living near the gleaming expanse of Tampa Bay in Florida used to require a certain calculus: Fear the Big One, a powerful hurricane that would tear into the densely populated region and drown people and property. But also rest assured that most Gulf of Mexico storms are near-misses — one has not directly hit Tampa since 1921 — and keep enjoying life on the coast.

Climate Change, Florida, Hurricanes, Coastal Living, Real Estate

35 points by howard941 112 days ago | 85 comments

Biden declares emergency as Florida braces for Tropical Storm Helene (theguardian.com)
Joe Biden declared a state of emergency for Florida on Tuesday afternoon as the state braced for the prospect of Tropical Storm Helene swelling into a powerful hurricane heading for the state’s Gulf coast.

Politics, Weather, Florida, Hurricanes

7 points by howard941 115 days ago | 0 comments

Solitary wooden house on Union Island escapes fury of Hurricane Beryl (theguardian.com)

Weather, Hurricanes, Real Estate, Architecture

4 points by adrian_mrd 189 days ago | 0 comments

Be a little freaked out about Hurricane Beryl (arstechnica.com)

Weather, Hurricanes, Natural Disasters

9 points by laurex 199 days ago | 2 comments

Hurricane Beryl Tests Jamaica's $1.6B Disaster Safety Net (yahoo.com)

Jamaica, Hurricanes, Climate Change, Disaster Relief, Infrastructure

10 points by Kon-Peki 199 days ago | 0 comments

Beryl nears Caribbean as it becomes the earliest category 4 hurricane on record (theguardian.com)