Reading the Horizon/Lapham's Quarterly

“For thousands of years, Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean and the Gulf and Atlantic coasts had come to know the telltale signs of a hurricane’s approach—a shrouded horizon at sunset, humid breezes thick with salt, shorebirds finding safe roost, shifts in gusting winds from east to west. In 1893 the method of reading the horizon had not changed much. What continued to elude inhabitants of hurricane-prone coasts was forewarning of intensity.”

Read the Article | Caroline Grego | Lapham’s Quarterly

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Sept. 12, 2018) --- Cameras outside the International Space Station captured a stark and sobering view of Hurricane Florence the morning of Sept. 12 as it churned across the Atlantic in a west-northwesterly direction with winds of 130 miles an hour. The National Hurricane Center forecasts additional strengthening for Florence before it reaches the coastline of North Carolina and South Carolina early Friday, Sept. 14.

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from Greenbelt, MD, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons