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Kimberly Wood

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Assistant Professor of Meteorology, Mississippi State University

When Hurricane Dorian, seen here from the International Space Station, stalled over the Bahamas in September 2019, its winds, rain and storm surge devastated the islands. NASA

September 24, 2020

What makes hurricanes stall, and why is that so hard to forecast?

Kimberly Wood, Mississippi State University

Hurricane stalling has become common over the past half-century, and their average forward speed has also slowed.

Hurricanes Marco and Laura swept through the Gulf of Mexico just two days apart in August 2020. Joshua Stevens/NASA Earth Observatory

September 18, 2020

The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is so intense, it just ran out of storm names

Kimberly Wood, Mississippi State University

It’s only happened twice since naming started in 1950, and there’s an unusual twist to where many of the storms formed this year.

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