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Episode 5: Hurricane Chris (2018)

Meet Hurricane Chris! Another storm from the 2018 Atlantic Hurricane Season, Chris formed on July 6 and lasted till July 17. Think I’m making this storm up? I’d never do that to you! Chris formed, peaked and dissipated during the heart of the 2018 summer, and while you may have forgotten about him, he reachedContinue reading “Episode 5: Hurricane Chris (2018)”

Episode 4: Hurricane Helene (2018)

Meet Hurricane Helene! Hurricane Helene formed on September 7 and dissipated on September 16, 2018. Ring a bell? No? Well, then it is time to get to re-know the hurricane child prodigy that Helene. Hurricane Helene wasted no time at all in moving from low pressure system over West Africa into a formidable hurricane. Hell,Continue reading “Episode 4: Hurricane Helene (2018)”

Episode 3: Hurricane Lorenzo (2019)

Meet Hurricane Lorenzo! Hurricane Lorenzo formed on September 23 and dissipated on October 4, 2019. Now, you’re not going to tell me you already forgot about Lorenzo less than two years later! Time to get to re-know a budding post-hurricane superstar in Lorenzo. Lorenzo was a quick forming storm, becoming a tropical storm two daysContinue reading “Episode 3: Hurricane Lorenzo (2019)”

Episode 2: Hurricane Bertha(2014)

Meet Hurricane Bertha! Hurricane Bertha formed on August 1 and lasted (in some form) until August 16, 2014. Don’t remember her? Well get reacquainted! Bertha throughout her life as a tropical system always sorta looked…disheveled. Yet whenever hurricane hunter aircraft flew through her, her winds were always stronger than she looked. Just goes to show,Continue reading “Episode 2: Hurricane Bertha(2014)”

Episode 1: Hurricane Ophelia (2017)

Meet Hurricane Ophelia! Hurricane Ophelia formed on October 9 and lasted until October 18, 2017. Remember her? Well you should! Ophelia became the easternmost major hurricane on record for the Atlantic basin, and did so even with ocean temperatures not nearly as warm as normally needed for such a strong storm. And even after Ophelia’sContinue reading “Episode 1: Hurricane Ophelia (2017)”

About Me

Hi, I’m Tom. I’m a climate scientist, meteorologist and science communicator who has been talking to clouds since I was three. In the middle of an existential conversation about time and “what comes next” with a cloud that looked like a bunny, I had the thought “What do hurricanes do after their done being hurricanes?”Continue reading “About Me”