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CoalCracker
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Re: how do they determine hurricanes?
      Mon Aug 15 2005 09:16 PM

fatmike (hope you don't mind me calling you that),

I'm no met but will try to give you an educated guess. Although the meteorologists in the past did not have the sophisticated tools available today, they, and mariners as well, were able to record barometric pressure readings, and I believe that the barometric pressure readings are what determines tropcial depressions, storms and hurricanes as well as their strength. Thus, if accurate barometric readings are available for past hurricanes, mets could calculate their relative strength.
Perhaps someone with more knowledge than I can chime in here.

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* how do they determine hurricanes? fatmike Mon Aug 15 2005 09:16 PM
. * * Re: how do they determine hurricanes? Clark   Mon Aug 15 2005 09:57 PM
. * * Re: how do they determine hurricanes? fatmike   Mon Aug 15 2005 10:52 PM
. * * Re: how do they determine hurricanes? CoalCracker   Mon Aug 15 2005 11:04 PM
. * * Re: how do they determine hurricanes? Clark   Tue Aug 16 2005 12:17 AM
. * * Re: how do they determine hurricanes? CoalCracker   Mon Aug 15 2005 09:16 PM

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