“It hit 185 mph over the Bahamas, and until the last day and a half, it was heading straight up Eighth Street in Miami.”ĭorian ended up causing mass destruction across Abaco and Grand Bahama. “Dorian in 2019 is the one that totally got my attention,” said Olson. And in 2020, TEN Atlantic hurricanes rapidly intensified.
In 2021, five hurricanes in the Atlantic rapidly intensified. They are also rapidly intensifying, meaning the winds are increasing at least 35 mph in a 24-hour period. Climate change is showing us storms are getting stronger, moving slower and are holding more water than ever before. You can’t future-proof in a changing environment if you’re looking backwards.” “So, if we’re going to future-proof, we need to be able to research and test what future hazard events will look like. Richard Olson, director of the Extreme Events Institute at FIU. “If you think about trying to future-proof, a changing hazard environment, a hazard scape, the US hazard scape with climate change, the past is not much of a guide. The facility will be able to simulate all of it. Storm surge tends to be worse when the coastlines are more shallow like along the Florida Panhandle. It will also be able to simulate different coastlines.
The water basin will look like an enormous pool. Will the roof detach? Will the house still be standing at all? So, the National Science Foundation (NSF) just awarded a $12.8 million grant to FIU’s Extreme Events Institute for the design of a full-scale testing facility capable of producing winds of 200 mph, along with a water basin to simulate storm surge and wave action in extreme winds.įIU will be able to build a house under the current building codes, start up the fans and see if it can withstand 200 mph winds. However, in our changing climate, sadly, 160 mph isn’t strong enough. The 12-fan Wall of Wind at Florida International University, one of the experimental facilities in National Science Foundation's Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure, that better enables engineering against tornadoes, hurricanes and other windstorms.
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