Hurricane Charley – When The Wind Blew – John Minor
Hurricane Charley – 2004 the year of 4 strong hurricanes So where were you when the wind blew? I was 32 years old with a general contractor’s license, 60 roofers,…
Hurricane Sally Hits Home- Pensacola, Florida
September 16th has been a bad day for John Minor’s hometown of Pensacola. This is the second time we have had a hurricane on this date. This storm surprised us…
Hurricane Matthew
The Landfall, The Aftermath, The Recovery Hurricane Matthew path caused substantial damage in September and October 2016. The hardest hit area was southwestern Haiti, with eastern Cuba, western Grand Bahama…
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Hurricane Harvey
The Landfall, The Aftermath, The Recovery While 2017 was a catastrophic year for hurricanes, Hurricane Harvey made history as one of the costliest tropical cyclones, next to Hurricane Katrina in…
Hurricane Irma
The Landfall, The Aftermath, The Recovery Hurricane Irma, the first Category 5 Cape Verde hurricane to strike the Leeward Islands, caused devastation and damage in the Florida Keys and the…
Six Months After Hurricane Michael – We Were There and Something was Different About This Late in the Season Storm – John Minor CFM
The timing was all wrong — we do not get storms this late in October but apparently no one told mother nature. I have been doing this storm thing as…
The Atlantic Hurricane Season and Why Predictions Are Uncertain
The Atlantic hurricane season began this year on June 1 2016, and the coastal residents in Mexico, the Caribbean Islands and United States are wary of what is about to…
Hurricane Harvey & Back: 4 Days in August: My Experience – John Minor
Hurricane Harvey and John Minor’s Trek In 2017, people along the Texas Gulf coast and I were preparing themselves for what was to be the most destructive natural disaster in…
Dr. William Gray – The Man who Declared War on Global Warming Extremists
Dr. William Gray: The story of an interesting person I shared industry halls (and our experiences) with. Referred to as “one of the greatest minds in hurricane research”, Dr. William…
Supercomputers: Their Increasingly Important Role in Hurricane Forecasting
Supercomputers – Complete Resources 2016 – have long been renowned for their processing power and their handling of data. Because of those qualities they have been employed for many major…
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Hurricane Hermine Impacts Florida's Big Bend – We were there – John Minor CFM
It’s that time of year again summer and early fall here in 2016 in the Gulf of Mexico, where systems of thunderstorms begin to cluster and organize, and begin to…
