So glad PBS is somehow keeping it together to continue these invaluable weather and climate explainers.
MIT’s Kerry Emanuel joins here in a narrative that includes:
Yet another visualization of the Coriolis effect – I for one, can never have enough because it continues to boggle me.
Which country is the most exposed to cyclone risks?
What can one extreme outlier storm tell us about hurricanes?
What will storms do in the future?
Meanwhile, tropical storm Isaias is shaping up to be a strong Cat 2 storm, the first of this quiet season. In a warmer world, even a run of mill storm has access to a lot more moisture, so good to keep an eye on this.
For New Orleans, the problem with Katrina was all of the water pushed into Lake Pontchartrain from the east. The undermaintained levees failed below their stated spec. Based on the money spent, the upgraded levees should hold, but a hell of a lot of people in NOLA and the parish just east of New Orleans are going to be very nervous.
(Another problem was that someone was allowed to park a barge in the Industrial Canal. It broke loose during the storm and acted like a battering ram to punch a hole in the wall that separated the IC from the Lower Ninth Ward.)