Meteorologist Who Cried Live on TV: ‘Frustration over Being a Climate Communicator for over 20 Years’

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MORALES: “It just so happens that moments before going on the air, the National Hurricane Center issued an urgent bulletin indicating that it had become a Category 5. So that was that was right at the moment. I remember, I wasn’t even looking at the camera as they were tossing, as the anchor was tossing to me. I was looking at my computer, my eyes go wide and then I look at the pressure that they reported from the National Hurricane Center and I did quick math. I also had a chart in front of me and it’s a very geeky, nerdy moment to break down over, you know, 50 millibars in 10 hours. But to a meteorologist, it means something. It means extreme rapid intensification of a hurricane, as would be expected in this new era that we’re in. And it was just a confirmation of everything we’ve been talking about for so many years, happening yet again, about to impact so many people, wreck so many lives. So it was just a mixture of empathy for those people, as well as the angst of increasingly frequent and more severe extreme weather events, and just frustration over being a climate communicator for over 20 years and realizing, you know, this is happening and we knew it was coming.”