Hurricanes Aren't That Hard to Track

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Watching coverage of like out your way earthquake I mean we don't experience a really bad earthquake here George. always helps me to realize like oh I I know what wind feels like and I've never felt wind like that so that's helpful for me at least. Katie Collins wants to know Floridian here why are hurricanes so hard to track? Mackenzie King wanted to know is uh hurricane season maybe gonna go longer in the yearSo yeah some good questions actually hurricanes aren't that hard to track within about five days they tend to be a little less easy to track when they're beyond 10-day range.

Bomb cyclones! Polar vortices! Atmospheric rivers! And rained out barbecues. One of the world’s leading Meteorologists, Dr. Marshall Shepherd – a former NASA scientist and current Professor of Geography and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Georgia – is here to field a downpour of questions. We chat about percentages in forecasts, hail, sleet, storm chasing, heatwaves, fluid dynamics, TV weather people, climate change delayism and his favorite weather-themed movies. Also: what not to do with a weather balloon.

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