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Dec. 14, 2024

AMSE Science Report with guest Eric Jay Dolin

AMSE Science Report with guest Eric Jay Dolin

Author Eric Jay Dolin discusses topics from his book, A Furious Sky: The 500 Year History of America’s Hurricanes

Following the horrific devastation wreaked by Hurricane Helene, I was so heartened to see many in our community and around the nation come together to help those who had lost everything.

I had spoken a while back on our podcast, AMSEcast, with Eric Jay Dolin about his book, A Furious Sky: The 500 Year History of America’s Hurricanes. We talked about some of those storms, including the Galveston, Texas, Hurricane of 1900. The people there had been encouraged to think a hurricane could not do any serious damage to their island home due to a deeply flawed understanding of how those storms work. The results were horrendous. Eric and I also spoke about how modern technologies help us predict and track these monster storms.