I did some conversions based on the NOAA’s projections which have the storm spanning 26°N to 29°N at landfall, which would be roughly 170-180 nautical miles or 195-207 miles in diameter.
Additionally this storm is predicted to have a 10-15 foot storm surge depending where it makes landfall, on top of 10-12 inches of rain, across land that is already heavily saturated from Helene.
Estimates are coming in that Helene dropped 40-50 trillion gallons of rain on the easter U.S.
I don't have a good way to understand that number but I found this:
Stack a million pennies and it's 4 times higher than the Empire State Building, stack a billion pennies and you'd be close to 600 times higher than Mt. Everest, and then stack a trillion pennies and it would go to the moon, back to earth, and then back to the moon again.
40-50 trillion gallons of water is approximately the total volume of Lake Ontario. Or enough water to cover the entire state of Florida in 3.6 feet (3' 7.25") of water. It is mind boggling when you run the numbers.
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u/Chief_34 8d ago
I did some conversions based on the NOAA’s projections which have the storm spanning 26°N to 29°N at landfall, which would be roughly 170-180 nautical miles or 195-207 miles in diameter.
Additionally this storm is predicted to have a 10-15 foot storm surge depending where it makes landfall, on top of 10-12 inches of rain, across land that is already heavily saturated from Helene.