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Pylons-- Sequence Photos

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Virginia Tech: Professor gives information on continuing hurricanes

Virginia Tech: Tropical Meteorologist gives information on continuing hurricanes

Stephanie Zick, Virginia Tech Assistant Professor with the Geography Department, talks to Catherine Maxwell on the number of hurricanes that have occurred for the 2017 hurricane season. The 2017 season is not over yet and tropical weather is still happening. This year, we have had some make landfall on the United States (Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma) and these hurricanes were on the intense scale. When Irma made landfall it was categorized as a Category 5 hurricane, which is the highest on the hurricane scale. Zick labels herself as a tropical meteorologist who is interested in how storms interact and impact the environment and the evolution of tropical cyclone precipitation for those projected landfalls. Zick goes into detail about the role of tropical cyclones with the United States, the commonality of these systems, and if the severity will continue. She states that this is an active season, but this pattern has been seen before only a few short years ago in 2010. This year we feel as if we have seen so many when in actuality it may be seen as normal. 

Update: With the tropical storm season still in effect, Tropical Storm Nate is churning in the western Caribbean and it could soon clip the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico before striking the Gulf of Mexico. The warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico could soon make this tropical storm become Hurricane Nate-- the next one to strike the U.S.