Abstract
As Hurricane Katrina’s calm eye inched over the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami, Florida, the evening of August 25, 2005, Lixion Avila, one of the Center’s six senior hurricane specialists, took a short break from sitting at his computer pondering the storm’s possible threat to the northern Gulf of Mexico coast to go outside.
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Williams, J. (2009). Tropical Cyclones. In: The AMS Weather Book: The Ultimate Guide to America’s Weather. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-935704-55-3_10
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