2024 Florida State Hurricane Season Expert Briefing

Florida State University faculty members shared their insights into the 2024 hurricane season with members of the news media in a virtual briefing.
Faculty members participating in the event were Professor of Meteorology and Associate Director of the Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies Mark Bourassa, State Climatologist and Associate in Research David Zierden, Professor of Risk Management and Insurance Patricia Born, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Pedro L. Fernández-Cabán and Professor of Law Erin Ryan.

[@Reichukey]

Thank you to all presenters for your hard work and communication with the public. This information will be invaluable as the hurricane season goes on.

[@PaulaTourville-po7fg]

Very informative . TY from SW Florida.

[@stevecoz7325]

..what about African dust during August-September?

[@chrisholmes1135]

As usual most hurricanes will be fish storms or get broken up by dust . My prediction is Florida doesn’t get hit

[@stevecoz7325]

I ​Pray you are correct..i am located in south florida. @chrisholmes1135

[@slugbyte]

Praying for Saharan dust!

[@gamingwitharlen2267]

Somewhere in the U.S will get hit by a Hurricane.

[@unitgamex2972]

@@chrisholmes1135that’s a horrible prediction tbh

[@user-tn7by5vh6s]

that's right

[@slugbyte]

Why doesn't Florida build all concrete homes like here in the Caribbean?

[@HeyTexasItsMe]

It’s not what’s in style. Vanity over survival in America 😮

[@johnsagar7447]

What about Rhode Island is it going to get hit by a hurricane

[@khyanlachance5741]

Oscar says, "Yes."

[@slugbyte]

You can't predict where storms might land before a storm forms, just be prepared for any type of disaster

[@jeffreycohen7139]

Very good Amy Green. She woke them up.....sleepy group.

[@annacrider4389]

We can expect more from harp

[@irishtombyrne]

cognitive dissonance - does everyone think that nature will just go away if we keep ignoring it?
You should charge fossil fuel companies for flood insurance

[@jcmjcm1945]

I have no sympathy for anyone living in florida or the lower lieing areas along the coast or gulf area. We move our entire 3 generational families sold our houses and apartment complex as we realized after retiring from military it was getting worse and worse there. They remain there knowing full well Hurricanes and mother nature is getting worse and worse. They alone are the root cause of the expensive and rising cost of insurance. I feel if they stay in these areas they need to start paying 100% of any of their own damage instead of us copping the cost with our raising insurance rates.

[@cindybarnes1533]

Builders are responsible. Counties that allow so much building so they can collect tax dollars are also responsible. So many factors play into all this.

[@unitgamex2972]

That first sentence is just horrible

[@jj6148]

Not even the kids who were born there and have no agency to move themselves? Damn.

[@jcmjcm1945]

@@jj6148 They have no one to blame but their parrents .If you want to move there is nothing stopping them besides their own will and determination. Go ahead and say money.Pift.. find another job. Yall act like we all should bend over and continue paying for welfare and handouts and let our insurance continue to go up because of those who refuse to move or pay their own decisions. No one is forced to be any where.

[@reneecrenshaw8325]

Very selfish on your part not to have sympathy. Moving is not the only answer. You can have disasters in any area. Everyone from the coast doesn't have the means to do what you did. We pay very high insurance on family property and land. That's why you have insurance to pay for weather damage that you or I cannot control. You can have sympathy or empathy when it happens to you

[@americanadreaming]

Wish I could have called in and asked them how this applies to doomsday biblical prophecy, only to interrupt their answer to then tell them I'm just pretending to be deranged... just to troll the red hats.