marine air wrote:
IF they are tracking a straight line and decelerating then they are gaining strength. If they weaken then they are accelerating towards the coast and will get here more quickly than estimated. They can change a category overnight. What People and myself forget sometimes is that the tidal surge, position of the moon (full moon) and the sheer quantity of rain can be devastating. You can survive the overall storm only to have your house or airplane hit by one of the dozens of tornadoes that pop up around the eye of the tornado.
After the storm, you have heat, humidity, mosquitos, live powerlines (or not) laying around, telephone poles and trees lying on the road. Your refrigerated beef goes bad in a day or two. there's no law and order and in some cases looting and thieves out and about. Walls can cave in or roofs fall into the house. I was in the Virgin Islands for Hurricane Hugo in September 1989. It got pretty bad after the storm and a person is crazy not to leave for a while.
Are you saying the moons gravitational effect on tides varies according to how much of the moons surface is in sunlight when viewed from Earth?