‘Above-Average’ Atlantic Hurricane Season Forecast, with Strong Probability for U.S. Landfall
Four major hurricanes are forecast to storm through the Atlantic Basin this year, with at least one likely making landfall on the U.S. coastline, according to meteorologists at Colorado State University (CSU).
“We anticipate an above-average probability for major hurricanes making landfall along the continental United States coastline and in the Caribbean,” said CSU forecasters Philip J. Klotzbach, Michael M. Bell and Jhordanne Jones.
“The probability of U.S. major hurricane landfall is estimated to be about 130% of the long-period average.”
For the entire continental U.S. coastline, the probability of a major hurricane, falling into Category (Cat) 3-4-5, is 69%. The Atlantic hurricane season officially runs from June 1 through Nov. 30.
Kelebogile Motswatswa.
In his autobiography
Still Grazing, South African jazz extraordinaire Hugh Masekela’s recollection of a bygone monolith moved me in ways I can’t even begin to enunciate.
What particularly struck a nerve were his reflections on the conditions during the Apartheid regime under which miners, in his hometown, Witbank, worked – and the homes to which they returned: no land, no family; they were forced to participate in a migrant labour system that caused the disintegration of many Black families.
Reading Masekela’s book got me thinking: how can White South Africans tell me to get over Apartheid when it dehumanised my people in such unbelievable ways? The callousness and lack of empathy is bewildering, to say the least.