i am so sorry if my question is worded weirdly.
live in pennsylvania. the remnants of hurricane beryl are supposed to come thru wednesday. i looked at the path, and my city isn’t in the cone. but we are still predicted to get massive rain and heavy thunderstorms.
how does this work? does it just depend on the size of the hurricane? and for cities that are IN the cone, are they going to be hit harder?
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When the media reports that a storm has made landfall at a particular location it gives you the idea that the storm “hit” there. Well, yeah, but the storm is three hundred miles wide, or more.
A hurricane doesn’t “hit” in minutes the way a tornado can, it slowly encroaches over a matter of days with bands of thunderstorms and torrential rain, steadily increasing in intensity. They all have tornadoes embedded in the most violent of the thunderstorms that circle the center of rotation.
Trusting that the center of rotation misses your location is like thinking that your chin being two feet from Mike Tyson’s in a fight is a safe place to stand.
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