The scientific community has come to an apparent consensus on how projected global warming over the next century will affect our tropical storms, including hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons. A special World Meteorological Organization panel of 10 researchers of both storms and climate change published a report yesterday in the journal Nature Geoscience which predicts that while the number of storms in the future will decrease, their strength will grow. The analysis is based on past storm data and computer models that project future weather patterns and storm activity.
The study finds that by the year 2100, the number of storms worldwide should decrease 6 percent, from the current average of 87 storms a year to as few as 57. This would be due to a warmer climate's increased wind shear which would help break up some developing storms. At the same time the study projects that due to warmer waters, storm strength would also increase 9 percent by the end of the century.
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
Philip deMahy Sr., a once respected New Iberia ad exec, was sentenced May 2 to spend the next two years (he faced up to 100 years) in a state penitentiary after state and federal investigators found dozens of images depicting children engaged in lewd sexual acts on his personal computer.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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