



Remember the late August – early September “stalled” Hurricane Dorian that tormented parts of the Bahamas seemingly forever? It’s the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded for the Bahamas, with fierce Category 5 wind speeds exceeding 180 miles per hour and inflicting the worst natural disaster in the country’s history.

Was that kind of intense storm, with its high rotational wind speeds and its slowly meandering movement from place to place, a “one-fer”? Or is instead an omen of more such storms to come?

Those questions are explored with a number of weather and climate experts in this month’s “This is Not Cool” original video by regular Yale Climate Connections contributor and free-lance videographer Peter Sinclair.

A CNN meteorologist characterizes Dorian with these words: “The thing just wobbles and wobbles and wobbles and just doesn’t go anywhere.”

“Perhaps the term ‘catastrophic’ may fall short for the amount of destruction created over the Bahamas” as a result of the “slow down and stall,” says Ángel F. Adames-Corraliza of the University of Michigan.

With several on-air meteorologists and climatologists saying recent research points to prospects for more such meandering and “stalled” storms in a warming climate, the video lays bare some intriguing points: