DrCaleb DrCaleb:
(Hurricanes) have been gaining strength at unprecedented levels, and starting to show a trend of stalling just offshore and dumping rain on land at a never before seen rate.
Hurricanes are not gaining strength any differently than have most hurricanes in the past. The storms that follow the Gulf Stream are also carrying a typical water load.
What is different compared to twenty years ago is the amount of development in the path of these storms. Stupid people have built too many things in aesthetically attractive low-lying areas near to tree-lined rivers and creeks.
That GPS could be measuring something occurring during storms is not new, it's just new that we're measuring it and getting freaked out over new data.
I've seen the same psychological phenomenon at work when we've started monitoring seismic shifting in the LA basin. People freaked out over data that this fault or another fault was moving at 10mm per year and causing cracks in roadways.
As if this were a NEW phenomenon.
Yet a pretty simple check with the street maintenance departments for affected cities revealed decades and decades of tagged spots that receive schedule repairs due to shifting that's been observed since the 1920's.
Meaning it's best not to jump to conclusions when you see new data. And this particular feature of measuring GPS stations is new to ArcMap 10.6 this year.
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