back. I just might be very, very,
very.
very. >> And welcome back to this
evening’s program here. Thank
you for joining us. Time now to
join our live panel with our
meteorologist said a special
guest judge. And thank you for
being here, Jets. Good to see
you. A lot of questions from a
lot of you, We’re going to get
to that in just a minute.
But first, frank, here to talk
about the not a disturbance,
but something in the Gulf.
We are also circulating off
the coast of Louisiana and it’s
certainly worth watching.
And that’s what we’re going to.
I’ll talk more about this at
10 o’clock. Take a quick look
at some weather maps here.
You’ll see of highlight
highlighted this little area
right there, South Louisiana.
So if you look at that,
Futurecast doesn’t do much as
we go into Friday. Just a lot
of moisture out there.
>> But you get a sense of that
circulation and look what
happens as we move into
Saturday and then especially
into Sunday, really get a spin
going so up to a tropical
deprsion. You know, another
wasn’t declared a tropical
storm to a moved inland.
So that could happen with this
storm to its over 86 degree
water. Real all you need is
80 degrees. So that’s their
very low. Windshear is in place
and it’s going to stay that way
as we go into Friday and
Saturday. So nothing’s really
going to tear it up. I think if
you look at the checklist and I
didn’t put development likely,
I just but possible warm water,
low wind shear, no land
interaction. Deep moisture will
talk more about it. I got a lot
of questions from people,
Christina, for Metals places.
It’s already been August.
We haven’t even seen a
hurricane or tropical storm.
Why is that due to the dust
from Africa? Whaare the
circumstances? Why we’re not
seeing more in terms of
hurricanes. So Michael, from
Pasadena, Saharan dust always
been moving across the Atlantic
and we just have the technology
to check in. Now. We think
that’s why part of it is the
dust. So the dust is have
playing a big role is also some
fairly strong wind shear.
However, it’s a la Nina season,
which means we’re going to see
weaker wind shear as we move
throughout the season. And
though temperatures in the
ocean are going to be gang
buster warm. So that’s all
going for it. I heard an
interesting thing, though.
We’re talking to Phil Scott
Speicher, us talking full class
block earlier this week.
He’s the big hurricane
forecaster. Is that the only
way this season would be a
bust? He’s like looking at the
European heatwave that European
hot air has been moving into
Africa. It’s what it’s doing.
It’s inhibiting a lot of those
tropical waves that move off
the offer African coastline
typically get 50 to 60 a year
that moved through east like
that number’s not there were
not anywhere near that number,
but he says he still thinks
it’s going to be a busy season
above average in the big reason
is La Nina, warm temperatures,
low wind shear. He’s like just
wait. We’re headed that way.
And that’s one of the reasons
the dust has been so active.
which by the way, they’ve been
studying this to since the Mid
60’s or an artist. And people
say, well, whe this does come
from, I’m not sure that we knew
would be played such a role.
Tropic Lee until 20 years ago,
right? They were standing up
for what does it do to the
ocean? What does it do? The air
was into the air quality.
Was it for for Liz Ation of the
Amazon. There are other reasons
to look at the African dust.
But when they started looking
at the way it can inhibit
hurricane development. That’s
when we sort of caught on to
that. But it’s been studied
for a while. And I was gonna
say that goes from a question
that Michael in Pasadena said
said he said that the dust has
been here the whole time.
We just now able to sort of
track it or we have better
technology. But I was going to
mid 60’s. Keep in mind we
didn’t see anyropical
development 70’s 80’s because
it was so cool. Environment was
cool. So I don’t think it had
much of a play. But then we
started to warm up in the 90’s
and the AutoZone cold, the arts
and the 2010’s. And then you
factor that in a little more.
So that’s always been there.
And what’s interesting about
that, too, if you look at, we
always say getting into August,
this is when things really ramp
up. Right. And the statistics
bear that out to fact. Check
that out. That’s where we are
right now today. You know, if
you go back to your mathematics
and statistics, one, 0, one
class.
class. >> That’s a bell curve right
there. And we’re just getting
into the higher part of that
bunker and it doesn’t take
much. We know that hurricane
and we just were about 5 years
out from Hurricane Harvey.
Now that was under your.
>> Watch. And so that whole
period of time really
devastating for us. Talk about
what the challenge is and has
been to recover from that.
Even now. Well, before I talk
about the recovery, let’s be
clear. The rains of Harvey work
a hurricane. It was the
remnants of Hurricane Harvey
that became this tropical storm
that just sat on top of us.
People are a little confused.
You’ve got to protect yourself
from the storm surge, but it’s
not necessary the rainfall.
That’s the big problem. But
any of these, even the one you
were just talking about right?
In theory want to get over land
could just become a big Have
there been improvement? Yes, I
mean, clearly the Rays
watershed has been improved.
A great deal. Sims was already
done before Harvey, which is
why was interesting RV didn’t
create a lot of flooding along
Sims bio. There’s still a lot
to be done. Why? Well?
The 2 and a half billion dollar
bond issue hadn’t really been
implemented fully yet.
Some of that has been a little,
shall we say, political
discussion there’s been
differences in terms of
recovery, the General Land
office and the county and the
city haven’t been able to get
on the same page all the time
and that that’s a problem.
But it all comes down to public
attention to you took a poll a
year after Harvey.
Number one issue was flooding
COVID comes along. The county
leaders had to pay attention to
COVID. No question. And the
public started paying attention
to COVID. And so by the time
the next storm mes along, how
how much of the public is going
to really be focused on?
The watersheds and then they’ll
all go well, why haven’t you
done anything yet? But there is
progress. It is going slower
than perhaps some of those sort
of like and be nice if the
politics wasn’t taking a big
part of it, There
should be no politics unplugged
control as it affects everyone.
It does that and it. But
unfortunately, some of the
funding mechanisms peep does
it last some some of the
funding mechanisms from the
federal government. Are tied to
the value of the property.
Well, I’m sorry that that’s
not right. And I mean, the fact
that you have a higher value
property. Shouldn’t put you at
the front of the line. But
that’s why some of the money in
the bond issue, a set aside
specifically for the
lower-income areas and but I
don’t think greens and hall
know those watersheds have near
enough has been done. What
about the flow?
Well, Buffalo Bio’s is
constant. You know, it’s it’s
always under improvement.
And there have been some
things. But most of the bond
issues, if you remember worth
for the walk, other watersheds
and the reservoirs,
the Dems I still read, the
words are I want to say they’re
fine, but there are a lot.