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After a Weirdly Quiet First Half, the Atlantic Hurricane Season is in High Gear
Ian is a reminder that all it takes is one hurricane to ruin your day, or city.
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Grappling with Catastrophe After the Tsunami-Like Surge from Category-4 Hurricane Ian Meets Fast-Growing Florida
This is a worst-case clash between an explosive storm and communities that grew explosively in a hurricane hiatus.
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Idalia Provides a Fresh View of Florida's Bumpy Hurricane Learning Curve
The drumbeat of major hurricanes continues - Ivan, Irma, Ian, now Idalia... And those are just the I's. What's going better, or not?
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A Veteran Florida Hurricane Reporter Suggests All Newcomers Get a New Kind of Welcome Guide
If newcomers to Florida all got a handout showing the paths of past hurricanes, would they be as quick to settle in harm's way? Probably, but it's worth…
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So Long, Sleepy Hurricane Season: Ian Targets Florida as Nova Scotia Dries Out After its "Tropical" Hit
Watch my pop-up Columbia Climate School Sustain What webcast on extreme storminess at the Arctic end of the Atlantic Ocean - a windblown Sunday visit…
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How to Help the Communities Devastated by Hurricane Helene's Catastrophic Deluges
UPDATE 10/4: I encourage you to share this Google Doc with a fantastic array of disaster aid groups at every level in Western North Carolina, which has…
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On Hurricane Models, Realities and Responses
I hope you’ll watch and share this conversation on the still-challenging gulf between supercomputer simulations of evolving hurricanes and socie…
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As Trump Slashes Funding for State Disaster Planning and Response, the Bull's Eye in Danger Zones Keeps Growing
A big reinsurer offers yet another warning about mega-losses from hurricanes and the rest.
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Meet a Top Guide to Hurricanes and Climate Change as a Hot Atlantic Storm Season Begins
Watch now (42 mins) | A refreshing dose of data-based insights into how rising CO2 and other factors are, and aren't, changing hurricanes
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Water Hazard - When Rewilding Bites Back
My 1988 Florida tale of a conservation success amid subtropical surburban sprawl remains relevant as ever more conflicts erupt between people and…
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Challenges Abound as Tropical Storm Henri Hits a Coast with a 30-year Hurricane Gap
Experts in hurricanes, climate and risk perception grapple with ways to boost public safety facing uncertainty
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Now TikTok and Musk's X Are Enabling Dangerous Speech Aimed at Courageous Hurricane Hunter Crews
And I once saw social media as building a world-enhancing "Noosphere."
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