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?
Updated 12:30 pm 8/29 - I hope you’ll watch and share this Sustain What conversation with the Florida-based hurricane scientist Dr. Joanne Muller and veteran Florida environmental journalist Craig Pittman: Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and X/Twitter at showtime at @revkin.
In 2022, Hurricane Ian exacted an enormous toll along Florida's southern Gulf coast. Now the area from Tampa north faces its moment.
Tampa’s last major-hurricane strike was in 1921, way beyond almost anyone’s living memory.
And the explosive growth in populations in recent decades has built not only an “expanding bull’s eye,” the apt phrase of disaster geographers Steve Strader and Walker Ashley, but has filled the growing target with newcomers with no experience dealing with hurricane risk. And paleoclimate research in the area, much of it led by one of my guests, reveals the normalcy of big hurricane strikes. Read this sobering paper for starters:
In this webcast, I explored issues and options with Craig Pittman, longtime Tampa-area environmental journalist, author and podcaster; and Dr. Jo Muller, hurricane scientist and professor, Florida Gulf Coast University.
Tracking Idalia
