Sobering imagery of Hurricane #Idalia making devastating landfall as a major hurricane on the Big Bend of Florida.

What every climate scientist will tell you: Record-breaking extreme weather events of 2023 are expected at this level of warming. The impacts on people are more severe than expected. To keep things from getting worse, we need to stop burning fossil fuels & speed up adaptation.

A natural hazard becomes a disaster when it combines with exposure and vulnerability to cause loss of life, hurt, and injury to people, along with economic loss. In a way or another, disasters are a societal failure. #NoNaturalDisasters | #DRR

Hodograph of the day.

We’re working to improve resilience to extreme weather regardless of language ability. Today we launched weather.gov/translate to host NWS forecasts translated by an AI language model into Spanish and Simplified Chinese with plans to add more. noaa.gov/news-release/n…

So good to see more attention on environmental racism intersecting with disaster and climate change. I’m so proud of Southwest Crossing Community Initiative and honored to partner with them in this work #environmentaljustice #emergencymanagement #EMGtwitter capitalbnews.org/houston-pipeli…

‼️Please share ‼️I and Dr. Logan GC are excited to be interviewing #Ukrainians resettled in #Seattle following #Russia|s invasion for our #research on #risk #perception among #refugees #RussianUkrainianWar #Ukraine

So good to hear from Dr. Anthony Fauci this afternoon as a part of the celebration for the 60th Anniversary of the Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware amazing lessons about the need for transparency and humanity instead of political division

We loved seeing this wrap up from the #HazWs Workshop and Researchers Meeting from Dr. Samantha Montano. Up and coming disasterolgists featured prominently! bit.ly/3YC322D #HazWS2024 #RM2024

...MILTON RAPIDLY INTENSIFIES INTO A CATEGORY 5 HURRICANE... Data from an Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft indicate that Milton has strengthened to a category 5. The max sustained winds are estimated to be 160 mph with higher gusts. Hurricanes.gov/#Milton

Great conversation at the UD Coastal Resilience Workshop with Prof Paula Jarzabkowski about disaster insurance and climate change. Looking forward to more discussions about insurance as #climate adaptation Check out her open access book!

In light of the White House Task Force report on Community-Driven #Relocation, I am re-posting these 13 recommendations on how to improve community and individual relocation policy. More on my recs: docs.google.com/document/d/1tf… WH Report: whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…