The track forecasts for Hurricane Milton were accurate from the first advisory through the last, in a stunning example of forecast advances. (That did not stop the conspiracy theories, but let's leave those aside for the moment.) www.axios.com/2024/10/11/h...
The forecasts outperformed the typical errors seen five days ahead of landfall.
Center of current NHC cone puts Milton's center south of Tampa Bay at landfall. If so, that could make it "just" a huge disaster, instead of an unprecedented worst-case scenario for Florida. But landfall further north, funneling the surge into the Bay, is still well within the realm of possibility.
Latest storm surge forecast provides some slight good news for Tampa Bay, with a record 8-to-12-feet of surge (down from 10-to-15 feet). But that's still historic there. Max surge would be south of the city, toward Charlotte Harbor, Siesta Key & Anna Maria Island.
Increasingly concerned about TS Milton and the likelihood of a powerful hurricane hitting the west coast of florida at a nearly 90-deg angle — with implications for the storm surge threat. May be 2nd hurricane landfall there in 2 wks www.axios.com/2024/10/05/t...
The storm could hit some of the same parts of Florida that are recovering from Helene.
"It’s not yet clear whether the rise of clean energy factories as an economic force will shift voters’ attitudes, but if there’s any place where it could make a difference this fall, it will be Georgia." www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle... by Julian Spector
The swing state has been a big winner of Biden's clean energy manufacturing incentives. Now, its voters will play an outsized role in deciding whether those gains endure.
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The unelected body that shapes voting rules has a new conservative majority who question the state’s 2020 results. They now have new power to influence the results in 2024.
Back in October 2005, after our regular update of the GISTEMP temperature data, the WaPo did a story (front page) on how this meant that 2005 was likely to be a record warm year. The political appointees at NASA HQ freaked out, literally screaming down the phone insisting that this was unauthorized…
Amid Midwest floods, the Nat'l Weather Service suffers a major computer outage affecting communicating weather warnings, accessing agency websites and data resources. This is part of a pattern at this agency that is not improving, it seems. www.axios.com/2024/06/25/w...
Fantastic job alert for an early-career journalist: work as an editorial assistant with me and Masha Gessen. nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/NYT/jo...