COSEE Ocean Systems: News
Scientists brave Hurricane Harvey's fierce winds and pelting rain -- Irma is next
Description: The outer rainbands of Hurricane Harvey's intensifying winds were moving onshore in South Texas, bringing torrential rains and tropical storm gusts. Northbound Interstate 37 was jammed with cars, trucks, trailers and boats. Stores and gas stations were boarded up. Corpus Christi was shutting down. "People just grabbed whatever they could carry and went," said atmospheric scientist Josh Wurman, director of the Center for Severe Weather Research (CSWR) in Boulder, Colorado. Wurman should know. He and scientist Karen Kosiba, also of CSWR, were running the wrong way, heading for ground zero, where Harvey's fury would roar onshore. They weren't alone. A National Science Foundation (NSF) Doppler-on-Wheels (DOW) was with them. [Source: National Science Foundation]
URL: https://nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=243064&org=NSF&from=news
Availability: Full Text
Source: National Science Foundation
Publish Date: 9/6/2017
Reading Level: Basic
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