After Hurricane Ian slammed into the Florida Gulf coast, doing an estimated $40 billion of damage and killing nearly 130 people, nascent recovery efforts were hampered by the simple fact that many hom...
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Are You Guilty Of ‘Anchoring’ When Using Weather Forecasts?
GULF OF MEXICO – SEPTEMBER 28: In this NOAA handout image taken by the GOES satellite at 13:26 UTC, … [+] Hurricane Ian moves toward Florida on September 28, 2022 in the Gulf of Mexico. Th...
Unrealistic Expectations Cause False Narratives About Weather Forecasts
MIAMI – AUGUST 08: Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center, speaks during a news … [+] conference to announce NOAA’s updated 2006 Atlantic Hurricane season forecast A...
5 Ways Hurricane Messaging And Public Interpretation Must Evolve
TOPSHOT – An aerial picture taken on September 29, 2022 shows a flooded neighborhood in the … [+] aftermath of Hurricane Ian in Fort Myers, Florida. – Hurricane Ian left much of coas...
Hurricane Ian Floods South Carolina
Topline Hurricane Ian made landfall in South Carolina on Friday, bringing massive rain and flooding to the state’s Atlantic coast, only days after the storm caused destruction across much of Florida. ...
Hurricane Ian Makes Second U.S. Landfall In South Carolina
Topline Hurricane Ian made landfall on South Carolina’s coast Friday as a Category 1 storm, and it’s expected to bring storm surges, heavy rainfall and 85 mph winds—just two days after the storm hit F...
Hurricane Ian Could Be One Of Florida’s Deadliest Storms In Years—But Historic Storms Were Far Deadlier
Topline The death toll from Hurricane Ian reached at least 12 on Friday and is expected to climb, according to reports from local officials, making the storm one of the state’s deadliest in recent his...
What It Could Take To End Hunger In America, Hurricane Ian Hits Florida Farming And Inside Marion Nestle’s ‘Slow Cooked’
Retirees swimming in their flooded South Florida living rooms. Entire houses getting sucked out to sea. Restaurants, grocers and food banks out of commission. Tomato fields and citrus orchards wrecked...
At Least 12 Dead From Hurricane Ian In Florida—And Numbers Expected To Rise
Topline The death toll in Florida from Hurricane Ian has risen to at least 12, according to various reports from local officials , while authorities believe “hundreds” more could have died, potentiall...
Biden To Oil Industry: “I Don’t Understand Economics”
American comic, film actor and activist, Irwin Corey, performs on stage at Lulu White’s jazz club, … [+] Boston, USA, 29th August 1978. (Photo by Barbara Alper/Getty Images) Getty Images I...
Disney World In Florida Reopening On Friday After Hurricane Ian
Topline Disney plans to reopen its Walt Disney World theme park and Disney Springs shopping area in Orlando, Florida, starting on Friday in a “phased approach,” the company said Thursday, after Hurric...
These Are The Florida Areas Hardest Hit By The Category 4 Storm
Topline Millions of Floridians are without power and damage across the state from powerful winds and storm surges caused by Hurricane Ian has been catastrophic, according to officials, with the cities...
2 Million Without Power As Storm Strikes Florida
Hurricane Ian slowed to a Category 1 storm as it moved through Central Florida early on Thursday after making landfall earlier as a Category 4 and causing devastating storm surges, flooding and leavin...
2.5 Million Ordered To Evacuate And Thousands Without Power As Florida Braces For Storm
Topline Around 2.5 million people across Florida have either been ordered or advised to evacuate their residences, while more than 31,000 homes faced power outages early on Wednesday, as the state bra...
Walt Disney World Theme Parks Closing Due To Hurricane Ian
Topline Walt Disney World’s theme parks will be closed for two days due to Hurricane Ian, the company announced Tuesday, as the hurricane shutters tourist attractions throughout central Florida before...
Hurricane Ian Will Strengthen And Stall
Hurricane Ian on September 26th, 2022 Tropical Tidbits website and NOAA It has been clear to me since a few days ago that Hurricane Ian was going to be a threat for Florida, but there was uncertainty ...
Ian Will Likely Be A Hurricane Soon
Tropical Storm Ian is on approach to the United States, and it is a storm that could make everyone quickly forget the relative calm of the early hurricane season. The National Hurricane Center is moni...