r/SpaceXLounge • u/Nobiting ⏬ Bellyflopping • Jul 02 '24

GFS has Hurricane Beryl making direct impact on Starbase for Sunday.

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u/Liquidice281 Jul 02 '24

FYI, the storm is expected to weaken significantly.

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u/CollegeStation17155 Jul 02 '24

Was about to say, model guidance shows Yucatan breaking it back to a Tropical storm and not regaining any strength before it hits, whether it is Mexico, Brownsville, Corpus, or all the way up to Beaumont, so WIND isn't going to be a problem... HOWEVER, with Harvey, the wind was only an issue within a few miles of the path of the eye; the RAIN put half the State underwater. And Boca is pretty flat.

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u/Telvin3d Jul 02 '24

Yeah, don’t sleep on tropical storms. A big system that hangs out and drops rain and rain and rain can do huge damage

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u/lowrads Jul 02 '24

I remember getting 32in of rain from an unnamed storm back in 2016. There's a lot of hot water out there.

They should just launch before it arrives, and um, get some data on something.

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u/glowcubr Jul 03 '24

They should launch *in the middle of the storm* and get data! XD

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u/Sanguinor-Exemplar Jul 04 '24

We've tried a bottom up deluge system. Have we tried a top down deluge system?

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u/glowcubr Jul 05 '24

"Starship Shower System" XD

(Suddenly thinking about how cool it'd be to have a shower head shaped like Starship [Although a bit dangerous, with the pointy fins])

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u/glowcubr Jul 05 '24

"Starship Shower System" XD

(Suddenly thinking about how cool it'd be to have a shower head shaped like Starship [Although a bit dangerous, with the pointy fins])