Category 4 Image at the right. Note: This would be the worst case scenario for all individual pixeled areas, not a blanket for the entire region. Each area would be specific to the landfall and trajectory of the storm.
The Deadliest part of a hurricane is the Storm Surge. Click on the list below to find our more.
Katrina- 1 Year Later (2006) DROWNING TO DROUGHT : For irony, New Orleans is about 20 inches below normal on precipitation this year. A blessing in cleanup and rebuilding efforts. By this point you have seen tons of material on this storm. I just wanted to share another opportunity to hear what we said on our show last year- the day before lanfall.
Tony reads the National Weather Service Statement, my economic prediction and Meteorologist Howard Berstein's call on New Orlean's leves. The entire show is linked here.
There are opposing views of hurricane activity, but only the dire make the mainstream.
Reuters reported recently that research links warming to increase in hurricanes. This completely contradicts the reports from the National Hurrican Center and Dr. William Gray. Gray denounces any link based on a 30 year proven cycle in Atlantic hurrican Activity. He even testified his research to congress.