Michael Lowry has a great post
Posted by
cypresstx on 8/20/2016, 4:58 am
here: https://medium.com/the-weather-channel/imagine-a-world-without-tropical-depressions-bbc4840834da#.qh5zccir5
a snippet:
What happened in Louisiana last week was extreme, but it's by no means isolated. A week prior to Louisiana, torrential rains from a weakening tropical storm drowned parts of eastern Mexico, killing 45 in deadly mudslides and landslides. Two days prior to that, an unnamed, unclassified tropical disturbance caused severe flooding and mudslides across the Dominican Republic. Tropical floods are happening every week as we belittle the "quiet" Atlantic. We measure tropical activity strictly by winds when 90% of tropical cyclone deaths are water related. There's a disconnect, and we owe it to those lives washed away by the next Tropical Depression or disturbance to ask what brought us here in the first place. |
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