Marshall Shepherd

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Ologies with Alie Ward · Extreme Meteorology (EL NIÑO) with Marshall Shepherd · 16 Sep 2026 podcast

Even as we lost the amazing Dolly Parton this year, literally days to weeks later, the storm Dolly formed.

That was a tropical storm, didn't last very long, but the moisture from

Dolly was very beneficial for Puerto Rico who had been in significant drought and even parts of Florida.

So I thought it was such an irony and in a good way because Dolly Parton was such an amazing soul, such an amazing entertainer, someone that I enjoyed, and I enjoy weather as well.

And so the juxtaposition of those two sort of cultural and scientific events, it really is the spirit of science, humanities.

And life.

It really was because Puerto Rico, you know, talking about them for a moment, they still likely have some recovery from Hurricane Maria back in twenty seventeen.

And this year, again, drought was in place.

And part of that drought is likely related to El Nino because oftentimes Atlantic storms, hurricanes, and tropical storms can be a source of moisture for Puerto Rico and some of the islands.

But this year, because of the impacts of El Nino on the Atlantic Basin and other things too, African dust and so forth, they've been really dry.

And so Dolly's moisture actually came along and provided a little bit of relief for what has been a pretty dire scenario there in Puerto Rico and other parts of the islands.

Yeah, no.

You know, to tie it back to our conversation about climate, climate and extreme weather, storms, flooding, hurricanes, heat, they affect everyone.

Everyone's exposed to these events.

But unfortunately, there are some people across the planet here in the US and the global south and elsewhere that are disproportionately sensitive or vulnerable to these events and have least capacity.

capacity or resilience to bounce back for them.

And so I think Dolly understood that in life, and we need to think about that as we see this ever increasing spectrum of extreme weather.

We're already seeing parts of South America experiencing significant rain and at least along the West Coast.

We will likely, because keep in mind, El Nino, the worst of it, tends to peak later in the winter.

We're still in the fall and we're already seeing this particular El Nino surpass some of the strongest El Nino events that we've ever seen.

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