Tempestology (HURRICANES) Part 2 with Dr. Kim Wood & Matt Lanza
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Oh hey, it's still your ex-boyfriend who pretended he didn't know how to wash the cast iron right, so he just didn't. Allie Ward, and this is part two of a smooth sail through rough weather. This is ologies, this is hurricanes, typhoons, or cyclones. We describe the difference in part one. And in part one, we met Dr.
Kim Wood, who's an associate professor in the Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Arizona. And also Matt Lanza, a Rutgers-trained forecast meteorologist and a writer and editor for Houston's highly respected, deeply beloved meteorological outlet, Space City Weather. And he's also a co-founder of the website, The Eyewall. And we covered how fast hurricanes go, with the threshold for a category one being 74 miles an hour. And Kim blew open my mind explaining that if you
Stuck your hand outside a moving car window. Think of that force. A category five, as covered in part one, is at least 157 miles per hour or 252 kilometers an hour or higher. Catastrophic indeed. So when you're thinking about these wind speeds, like, I can't imagine.
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