FURTHER THOUGHTS ON TROPICAL CYCLONE DELUGES
FURTHER THOUGHTS ON TROPICAL CYCLONE DELUGES
This post is the third in a trilogy pondering the very real possibility that we have entered a “new normal” with respect to tropical storms and hurricanes, focusing in particular on relatively small storms on the Saffir-Simpson scale producing prodigious amounts of rain in the eastern Carolinas (part 1; part 2). Here I offer some additional thoughts.
Flooding from Hurricane Matthew along U.S. 421 in Wilmington, NC (near the USS North Carolina Battleship Memorial)(Associated Press)
Compound flooding