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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 described 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 Eye Wall.
And we covered how fast hurricanes go with the threshold for a Category 1 being 74 miles an hour. And Kim Blue opened my mind explaining that if you stuck your hand outside a moving car window, think of that force. A Category 5, as covered in Part 1, 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...
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They're at the link in the show notes or wherever you get your podcast smologies. Okie dokes. Let's dive into part two of Tempestology. It's all about how to prepare for a hurricane or really any disaster that comes your way.
The very latest on weather and climate science funding, where you should retire, what's Waffles got to do with it, and what happens if you forge a hurricane map on international TV.
We'll hear from professional disasterologist and icon Dr. Sam Montano about the current climate of things and some of her reflections on equity and disaster relief and what you should do now in case something hits you. So batten down the hatches. Let's barrel headfirst into Cyclonic Systems with Tempestologists Dr. Kim Wood and Matt Lanza.
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