RT @NHC_Atlantic: Hurricane Katrina 20th Anniversary: Advancements in Intensity Forecasting (Part 4 of 5)
Friday, August 29 is the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina making landfall along the U.S. Gulf coast and devastating the coasts of Mississippi and southeastern Louisiana. A lot has changed since 2005.
In this video, Hurricane Specialist Lisa Bucci talks about the advancements NHC has made since Hurricane Katrina in forecasting how strong a tropical cyclone will get, including our improvements in forecasting rapid intensification.
Filming/Editing Credits: Lisa Bucci and Cassandra Mora
RT @NHC_Atlantic: Hurricane Katrina 20th Anniversary: Advancements in Intensity Forecasting (Part 4 of 5)
Friday, August 29 is the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina making landfall along the U.S. Gulf coast and devastating the coasts of Mississippi and southeastern Louisiana. A lot has changed since 2005.
In this video, Hurricane Specialist Lisa Bucci talks about the advancements NHC has made since Hurricane Katrina in forecasting how strong a tropical cyclone will get, including our improvements in forecasting rapid intensification.
Filming/Editing Credits: Lisa Bucci and Cassandra Mora
Since its launch in 2013, Telegram has grown from a simple messaging app to a broadcast network. Its user base isn’t as vast as WhatsApp’s, and its broadcast platform is a fraction the size of Twitter, but it’s nonetheless showing its use. While Telegram has been embroiled in controversy for much of its life, it has become a vital source of communication during the invasion of Ukraine. But, if all of this is new to you, let us explain, dear friends, what on Earth a Telegram is meant to be, and why you should, or should not, need to care. At its heart, Telegram is little more than a messaging app like WhatsApp or Signal. But it also offers open channels that enable a single user, or a group of users, to communicate with large numbers in a method similar to a Twitter account. This has proven to be both a blessing and a curse for Telegram and its users, since these channels can be used for both good and ill. Right now, as Wired reports, the app is a key way for Ukrainians to receive updates from the government during the invasion. The original Telegram channel has expanded into a web of accounts for different locations, including specific pages made for individual Russian cities. There's also an English-language website, which states it is owned by the people who run the Telegram channels. Soloviev also promoted the channel in a post he shared on his own Telegram, which has 580,000 followers. The post recommended his viewers subscribe to "War on Fakes" in a time of fake news. The channel appears to be part of the broader information war that has developed following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The Kremlin has paid Russian TikTok influencers to push propaganda, according to a Vice News investigation, while ProPublica found that fake Russian fact check videos had been viewed over a million times on Telegram.
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