“How dare you criticize billionaires? They make our jobs! Without them we wouldn’t have anything!”
And later…
”Trump will show all those bad billionaires who’s boss! He’s gonna drain the swamp!”
Yeah, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.
Observations on land of the sustained winds that hurricanes are classified as having—this happens very rarely. At best you usually will only see gusts matching the sustained speed that the NHC gives, and often not even that.
The idea is that if a hurricane makes landfall as a 140 mph storm, that 140 mph is probably only in a tiny part of the eyewall, and likely only on the coast itself, right as the storm goes inland friction will slow those winds down. Add that to the paucity of recording stations where Helene made landfall, and it starts to make more sense.