• protist@mander.xyz
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    6 months ago

    I’m not an expert on this, but I’m pretty sure there’s no storm hitting northern France that comes anywhere close to a strong typhoon/cyclone/hurricane. There’s no breakwater that’ll help you when faced with an 18ft storm surge or the kind of swells generated by 140mph winds. The WWII typhoon you cite hit the fleet in open water, there’s literally no technology to save you from that except weather forecasting that lets you get out of the way

    • tal@lemmy.today
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      6 months ago

      Sure, I’m not saying that that something t a magnitude of that particular storm would show up, but using it as an example of not being able to just rely on sunshine and calm skies when you want it.