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Hurricane prep 2021: ‘Near Shore Experiment’ proves scientists still don’t have a clue!

“To better protect our coastal communities we need to better model, understand and predict the complex and dynamic nearshore environment.”-Brittany Bruder, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center

Duck, North Carolina, where a major weather research project has been ongoing since 2019.

It has been more than 130 years since modern weather science started, yet even after decades of collecting hurricane data within the United States, scientists still don’t understand the weather!

An ancient U.S. Army Corps of Engineers LARC-V is used to carry a remote control boat (oceanographic research drone) for the DuNEx.

An attempt to rectify that will officially begin in Autumn 2021, on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. It is called the During Nearshore Event Experiment (DuNEx), or DUring Nearshore Event eXperiment (DUNEX), being conducted by the U.S. Coastal Research Program.  It would’ve happened sooner but there was a “…delay in their planning and preparation for the upcoming… …DUNEX field experiment due to the COVID-19 pandemic.” 

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo.

Preparations for DuNEx 2021 have been ongoing since 2019, and the whole thing is not expected to conclude until Winter 2022!  The goal is to be better able to predict what a storm will do, and to advise coastal communities on short-term and long-term plans of action.

June 2021: SPCMSC scientists travel to the Outer Banks of North Carolina to conduct DUNEX

Hurricane prep 2021: GEORGIA MILITIA WARMS-UP THE D-R-M-K-T

September 2020: ERDC researchers participate in the DUring Nearshore Event eXperiment 

LARC-V:  U.S. NAVY KEEPS OLD U.S. ARMY BOAT-TRUCK AFLOAT

Typhoon prep 2021: U.S. forces scramble on Guam!

U.S. Army photo by Specialist Richard Carlisi.

On 20-21 July 2021, U.S. Army soldiers taking part in wargame Forager 2021 on Anderson Air Force Base, Guam, scrambled but not for a possible enemy attack, for a possible typhoon/cyclone.

USA photo by Specialist Richard Carlisi.

Turned out it was just a ‘typhoon mitigation rehearsal’.  Basically the soldiers just grabbed their shit and ran for the nearest secure shelter.

WFO Guam’s Tropical Cyclone Area of Responsibility

Typhoon 2021: Southern Japan was hit by Typhoon In-Fa, in Philippines is was called Typhoon Fabian, whatever you call it the U.S. Marines say ‘Secure your trash’!

Hi-Tech Fail: CLIMATE CHANGE is BIGGEST THREAT TO BILLION DOLLAR WEAPON SYSTEMS!

Hurricane Dorian: HOW TO EVACUATE THOUSANDS OF U.S. MARINES

Matthew hits South Carolina with Civil War cannonballs!

On 09 October 2016, U.S. Air Force Explosive Ordnance Disposal personnel responded to calls of cannonballs hitting Folly Beach, South Carolina.

Turns out Hurricane Matthew dug up some U.S. Civil War era cannonballs.  During the War Between the States, Charleston was the site of several naval battles, including the use of some of the world’s first armored battleships, called monitors (aka Ironclads).