Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch

Interview with New York Times

Slocum spoke with The New York Times climate science reporter Henry Fountain about the ingredients and mechanisms of intensification. In the article entitled “Ida Strengthened Quickly Into a Monster. Here’s How.”, C. Slocum discussed the roles that ocean heat content, vertical wind shear, and eyewall & rainband convection played in the intensification of Hurricane Ida prior to making landfall on 29 August near Port Fourchon, Louisiana as a category 4 storm on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/29/climate/hurricane-ida-category.html  

(POC: C. Slocum, STAR, Christopher.Slocum@noaa.gov, funding: PDRA).

Figure. Screenshot of the New York Times article in which C. Slocum is interviewed about Hurricane Ida’s intensification over the Gulf of Mexico.