Your data seems to come from the Now tv channel.
We have that same channel to watch golf.
What makes their report any more valid than all the others, apart from agreeing with your agenda?

Remember it is a conspiracy!!

Cat 1 status has evidence --- Cat 2 does not -- unless you have it.

There is certainly irrefutable evidence that some posters are a pia.

It developed in the gulf you dont think that the short time over the hot water had anything to do with it.

Who cares? Cat 1 or 2. If you lived there, you wouldn’t care either. It was a strong hurricane and caused damage.thats a fact and thats all that matters. Such trivial things are always brought up for debate!

No -- that's an excuse. Check out past media reports, where many (including so-called experts) where sure (and even hoping) that "rapid intensification" would happen -- because of the boiling oceans and constant heat waves.

That is really the only constant: the constant string of excuses dating back to Katrina, of why we're not suffering from an avalanche of super hurricanes.

Isn’t it still too warm for slippers? Get me my flip flops, minion!!

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It's not trivial when there's an institutional change in how and when storms are being named and categorized -- because in most cases the trend is to inflate the numbers -- which of course adds to the fake climate crisis narratives. This was clearly described by the longest serving Director of the National Hurricane Center -- Dr. Neil Frank -- in his article ... How Busy Was the 2020 Hurricane Season? – Watts Up With That?

I use Clime, the NOAA weather app, and I have a screen shot of NOAA upgrading Francine to Cat 2 at 6:08 PM yesterday
I am going to assume that NOAA is a verified source and not a news source. If not, we have alot bigger problems.

Makes me wonder who the conspiracies are. The 99% of the world's best and brightest, or the ones who demand we answer silly questions and give them data which they refute.

That's funny. However, NOAA is a valid source of corrupted data, because they alter and fabricate temperature data to support the fake climate crisis. See attached diagram of one of hundreds of examples -- some of which will be discussed at the next Weather Club meeting ... The Villages Weather Club

OK about the altered data, but does the NOAA announcement, replicated by news media, mean that the classification to Cat 2 was not made? or was it made with altered data? I can't tell from the screen shot.

However, your point is well taken about altered data. Politicos will do what politicos need to do as every politico is a survivor. .

Just because I don't have it does not mean it doesn’t exist. It just means you aren't getting your info from the proper source.