09-26-2026, 11:16 PM
Hurricane watch is cancelled. Yay!
Mark Morrissey just posted today on Substack an article addressing the question of whether our mountains protect us from hurricanes.
https://ctranch.substack.com/p/do-the-bi...paign=post&utm_medium=web
Here's the spoiler:
"...As a hurricane approaches mountainous terrain, the mountains can block and redirect the lower-level winds while the circulation farther above the surface continues to be influenced by the larger atmospheric steering currents.
The hurricane can therefore become distorted.
It can slow down.
Its center can change direction.
Its low-level circulation can weaken.
A new circulation can sometimes develop on the other side of the mountains.
But none of those possibilities means that a hurricane must go around the island..."
Mark Morrissey just posted today on Substack an article addressing the question of whether our mountains protect us from hurricanes.
https://ctranch.substack.com/p/do-the-bi...paign=post&utm_medium=web
Here's the spoiler:
"...As a hurricane approaches mountainous terrain, the mountains can block and redirect the lower-level winds while the circulation farther above the surface continues to be influenced by the larger atmospheric steering currents.
The hurricane can therefore become distorted.
It can slow down.
Its center can change direction.
Its low-level circulation can weaken.
A new circulation can sometimes develop on the other side of the mountains.
But none of those possibilities means that a hurricane must go around the island..."