Quickly, a video spread in which meteorologist John Morales was crying while giving a report on the progress of Hurricane Milton, which It has strengthened in the Gulf of Mexico and is expected to pass through Florida in the next few hours.
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The atmospheric and environmental scientist, a member of the American Meteorological Society, spoke about the reasons that led him to be emotionally affected in the midst of the hurricane report, which on Monday reached category 5, It dropped to 4 for a few hours and returned to 5 this Tuesday afternoon.
“It is a mixture of anxiety about the extreme weather events that are multiplying and becoming more intense, with empathy for future victims, not only for the victims it will claim but for the suffering it will bring. And frankly, frustration,” he explained to Snail Now.
“It is an incredible, incredible, incredible hurricane,” He said as his voice broke. “It’s down… it’s down 50 millibars (the pressure units used to describe atmospheric conditions) in 10 hours. I apologize. “This is just horrible,” he added Monday while on the NBC-6 broadcast.
The meteorologist, in conversation with Telemundohad already explained why he was concerned about these events, related to the magnitude of the event and the consequences it may have for the inhabitants of the places where the hurricane will pass.
“You know what that means scientifically. Not only a rapid intensification, a hyper-intensification of a hurricane in an enormous way, it simply gave me that little shock in the air because one thinks of all the victims that are coming, one thinks of the multiplication of these extreme events,” he explained.
“I think what is happening is that as I have been accumulating [la preocupación]. “It has been many years, I have been in my career for 40 years and half of that time I have been trying to warn about the changes of global warming, climate change, and urging action to be taken,” he added.
Morales assures that worse events can come
The Gulf of Mexico is at a record level of heat, sea temperatures have never been as warm as they are currently, and hurricanes thrive on those temperatures.
In conversation with SnailMorales also pointed out that his concern is due to the fact that “see it arrive [al huracán Milton] and knowing that worse things are going to come from not taking prompt action to mitigate greenhouse gases.”
Furthermore, he stressed that the increase in this type of meteorological events, as well as the fact that Milton had strengthened in such a short time, is due to the increase in temperatures in the seas and oceans, as a result of global warming.
“The Gulf of Mexico is at a record level of heat, these sea temperatures have never been as warm as they are currently and hurricanes feed off those temperatures,” he explained.
Compared to other hurricanes, he indicated that it is stronger than Helene, but it is almost at the level of Dorian or Irma, which have also occurred in recent scenarios and have affected coastal populations.
Also, Morales assured that they are waiting for us “weather events that are going to be extreme and more frequent. “We must prepare for the eventuality of having systems of this nature, causing this type of impact more frequently in a warming world,” he pointed out.
“Extreme weather driven by global warming has changed me. Frankly, you should also be worried and demand climate action now,” was the call that the expert made in the last few hours on his social networks.
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