As someone who just went through Ian using the date it became a tropical depression seems wrong. It was a Cat 4 yesterday when it made landfall and it was a Cat 1, 2, and 3 storm before and after that.
I hope you, your family, and the community are doing well.
Were you in Western Cuba when it made landfall? That was well before yesterday. Any particular landfall in general will be arbitrary and becoming Cat 4 is more or less objective.
We're doing okay we fortunately weren't too close to Ft Myers.
My point wasn't about the landfall. It was that if you're saying it's X days since the last category 4 hurricane then using the date it was designated as a tropical depression doesn't seem correct, because it wasn't a category 4 storm at that time. You should use the last day that it was a category 4 which is also objective, and is actually the most recent time we had a category 4 storm.
Ah, sorry, I misinterpreted your comment. Yes, if the line on a website is “day since category 4” it totally makes sense to use the latest day when hurricane was assessed category 4.
Even if the wave isn't very tall, if it is fast-moving it can knock you off balance. Once you're down, wave doesn't have to be very tall to drown you. There's also the fact that rip currents are commonplace phenomena on beaches all over the world, so you combine that with a single unexpectedly fast wave and it's easy to believe a few people would die.
According to the "quick bulletin" on the bottom, this seems to be a downstream effect of a magnitude 6.9 earthquake that occurred. I suppose that will generally be the case for a tsunami, something usually drives it. In this case, it appears they're assigning 0 deaths (or stats) to the tsunami, but 2 deaths for the "total effects."
Yeah. I posted this on another such thread, but the date it is using is apparently the date the storm was declared a tropical depression. This isn't a reasonable interpretation, if you ask me. If you ask a human who was just hunkered down in a closet in FL trying to ride out Ian "how many days since the last Cat 4?" their answer is going to be "One."
Not even that, really? It claims "6 days since last Cat 4 Hurricane", yet yesterday a Cat 4 was bearing down on Florida. The date used on that one seems to be the day Ian became an official tropical depression … not the last day it was a Cat 4.
Note: The site claims to track "incidents", not "disasters". The word "disaster" is only here in the HN title.
Speaking of incidents that are not disasters... there was a 633ft high tsunami in Alaska in 2015 that I never heard of!? Wow..... Some of these incidents are really interesting to read up on, despite them having gotten little or no news coverage at the time.
“In probability theory and statistics, the exponential distribution is the probability distribution of the time between events in a Poisson point process, i.e., a process in which events occur continuously and independently at a constant average rate." [1]
Mudslides (from wildfires) caused by the hurricane that 'hit' Southern California a few weeks back presumably killed at least one person - that person is still missing in Forest Falls.
Cool idea. Looks like there’s a problem with the data though. The last cat 2 hurricane was Fiona, which has just petered out in the North Atlantic after ripping through my city five days ago.
