The Space City Weather Guys Talk the Ike Dike and Last Year's Hurricane Season
Eric Berger: It was an endless barrage of storms. Matt Lanza: It just didnât stop. We had very few breaks in anything. Still, a lot of those storms wereâI donât want to say wimpyâbut moderate. All of this was driven by a number of thingsâweâre in La Niña. You have an Atlantic ocean basin from the Gulf to the Caribbean to the ocean itself that has just been scorching warm. Water temperatures were through the roof for most of the season. Delta went over some of the warmest water on the planet. Why should Houstonians not get too comfortable even though we d...