The devastation of Hurricane Katrina sparked sweeping changes in hurricane forecasting and emergency preparedness. Forecast models, satellite imagery, and real-time data from Hurricane Hunter aircraft ...
Today marks 20 years since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in 2005. The catastrophic storm, which made landfall as a Category 3, was one of the deadliest natural disasters in U.S. history, ...
Katrina's origins was a tropical wave that traversed off the Coast of Africa on August 11th. It moved its way through the Leeward Islands and merged with a previous Tropical Depression named T.D Ten ...
Social media would have allowed survivors to counter rumors, challenge misinformation, and tell the public directly what's happening. During an interview with Dr. Dale-Marie Wilson, a computer science ...
BILOXI, Miss. -- Meteorologist Richard Knabb was working his first season as a forecaster at the National Hurricane Center when Hurricane Katrina hit Category 5 status in the Gulf of Mexico. He was ...
Katrina claimed the lives of at least 1,300 people across the Gulf Coast. Twenty years ago, on Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina cemented itself in history as one of the deadliest and most devastating ...
Two decades after Hurricane Katrina, the rows of pastel “Katrina Cottages” scattered across Louisiana still stand as reminders of both government ambition and bureaucratic missteps. In 2006, the ...
Today marks 20 years since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in 2005. The catastrophic storm, which made landfall as a Category 3, was one of the deadliest natural disasters in U.S. history, ...