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Milton rapidly intensified to a Category 5 hurricane late Monday morning.

Within hours, Milton strengthened to a Category 2, then a Category 3, then a Category 4 and finally a Category 5.

Milton now ranks as the third-greatest 24-hour wind speed intensification for a hurricane in the Atlantic Basin. (Records are based on data since the satellite era began in the 1960s.)

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[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 46 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I'm gonna tell myself that this is finally bad enough to spur widespread action on global warming as a way of feeling better about it and you can all preemptively shut up with your reality checks.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Tbh I've learned a lot about how thermal energy affects these storms and I gotta say, the only people who are gonna be living in Florida 20 years from now are people who live in submarines.

We ought to be executing oil company CEOs for treason.

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

In Germany more than 200 people died in a severe flooding in 2021. Just 2 month prior the conservative party CDU removed flood protection laws in one of the states most affected. In one of the towns completely destroyed they were again voted strongest just a few months later.

[–] strawberrysocial@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Are you doing okay? I feel kind of the same way I think.

[–] Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago

I’m gonna tell myself that this is finally bad enough to spur widespread action on global warming

I, too, want to believe that humans are capable for caring enough about themselves, each other, and their descendants in order to put in place measures to make the world better for everyone.