Katrina’s legacy: Refining hurricane forecasting
10 years later, lessons learned could save lives in next killer storm
HOPEFUL FORECAST A decade after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, the storm’s legacy of destruction continues to spur life-saving storm forecasting improvements. Katrina killed nearly 2,000 people and flooded huge swaths of New Orleans (shown).
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Ten years ago, the sea and sky rallied to unleash one of the worst natural disasters in U.S.