Kurt Hansen

(He/Him) Ph.D, hurricane researcher at the Naval Research Lab, frog father, unicyclist.

[Seasoned Chaos @seasonedchaos]

Grab your gear and hop on the ski lift! 🏔⛷️ This post written by @vkschoenwald is all about AMOC, an important component of the climate system. Hopefully you'll learn more here than from watching The Day After Tomorrow...
https://t.co/2tMHVeTSrM

[Kurt Hansen @all4hurricanes1]

@LastQuake My first earthquake!

[Seasoned Chaos @seasonedchaos]

New post! 🚨
@mbarcodia introduces us to a topic once considered mysterious, machine learning, and explains how it has become a useful and exciting tool 🔧 for climate science. Warning: you may leave with a hankering for pie... 🥧

https://t.co/Lct8lhddVY

[Kurt Hansen @all4hurricanes1]

@FerragamoWx Hurricane Isidore had a lower pressure without reaching above category 3 (110kts and 934mb). Others have pointed out there are storms like Katrina were category 3 with an even lower pressure, although it was weakening from category 5.

[Kurt Hansen @all4hurricanes1]

@burgwx You're right I thought Matthew was 75mph.

[Kurt Hansen @all4hurricanes1]

@greg_koman Unfortunately yes, Ian and Charley had the same wind speed at landfall but Ian was much larger which means longer lasting winds and higher surge.

[Kurt Hansen @all4hurricanes1]

Some damage in Ft. Myers from #Ian. We had to turn around because the roadway was still flooded. Many cars were stalled on the side of (and in) the road, presumably swamped by the storm surge.

[Kurt Hansen @all4hurricanes1]

In the northern eyewall of #Ian the building next to us started losing its roof. Several other buildings and hangars had similar damage. @v0rticity has a good video of the building from the front. https://t.co/BYZm3qSbq6

[Daniel Stern @v0rticity]

This nearby building appears to have substantial roof damage.

[Kurt Hansen @all4hurricanes1]

@PriscillaPilon This was on east First St

[Kurt Hansen @all4hurricanes1]

@LaylaFerris I did take this video myself. You can use it if you get me credit.

[Kurt Hansen @all4hurricanes1]

@JanhviBhojwani I did take the video myself, you can use this video if you give me credit.

[DaveNolan @DaveNolan305]

Hello everyone...we made it to a safe facility at the Punta Gorda airport and are waiting for the eye to arrive. @MiamiRosenstiel @UFWertheim #hurricaneian

[Daniel Stern @v0rticity]

At 4:38pm, we ventured outside into the eye of Hurricane #Ian, when the winds had decreased enough that it was safe to do so. @all4hurricanes1 @DaveNolan305

[Kurt Hansen @all4hurricanes1]

I joined @UFWertheim @DaveNolan305 and @v0rticity today to help set up observation towers in Punta Gorda to measure #Ian. We rode out the storm at Punta Gorda Airport. It's been a wild night but we're safe.

[Kurt Hansen @all4hurricanes1]

I'm in Punta Gorda for Ian, more coming up when it either gets more or less hectic.

[Daniel Stern @v0rticity]

Watching @DaveNolan305 help @UFWertheim set up the T2 mobile weather station in Punta Gorda, FL, in advance of the landfall of Hurricane #Ian @MiamiRosenstiel

[Kurt Hansen @all4hurricanes1]

@burgwx @pppapin This did happen recently, it might have been Wilfred and Alpha. I like to think the NHC forecasters race each other to see who issues the advisory first so their storm wins the name.

[Kurt Hansen @all4hurricanes1]

19 years ago today I woke up to this, courtesy of Hurricane Isabel. The storm caused a lot of damage from falling trees. In addition to the wind, Isabel hit the coast at such an angle to create historic storm surge in VA making it the costliest storm in the state's history.

[Kurt Hansen @all4hurricanes1]

If I may draw your attention away from the EPAC and to the Atlantic (who ever thought I'd need to say that) Earl seems to have unexpectedly intensified and may become a major hurricane after all.

[Kurt Hansen @all4hurricanes1]

@Giraffemayne Actually it is. Dolores became post-tropical well south of CA (and thus shouldn't technically be included) but the NOAA historical tracker doesn't differentiate between TDs and remnants apparently.

[Kurt Hansen @all4hurricanes1]

Tropical Storm Kay is just 100mi from California. In the past 71 years there's only been 29 TCs (including depressions) that have even been within 200 miles. Definitely a rare event that is bringing some potentially dangerous flooding rain to the San Diego area.