Meteorologist John Morales, who cried after Hurricane Milton, warns: “Worse things will come”

With tears and a broken voice, this is how meteorologist John Morales, from NBC 6, gave an assessment of how Hurricane Milton was approaching the coast of Florida, United States.

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Live, while giving his report, this atmospheric and environmental scientist exclaimed: “It is an incredible, incredible, incredible hurricane. It has dropped 50 millibars in 10 hours. “I apologize, this is just horrible.”

In conversation with Noticias Caracol live, John Morales explained that was broken due to “a mixture of anxiety about the extreme weather events that are multiplying and becoming more intense, with empathy for the future victims, and not only in lives that will be claimed, but the suffering that this hurricane will bring, and frankly frustration.”

This last sentiment originated from Morales.”For one to spend 20 or 30 years talking about what would come due to global warming and climate change, then see it arrive and know that worse things are going to come. By not taking prompt action to mitigate greenhouse gases, we are done here.”

Meteorologist John Morales explained that, due to the high temperatures in the sea, “hurricanes are nourished.”

The expert is very concerned the intensity of Milton because it has sustained winds that reach 300 kilometers per hour, “in addition, a storm surge possibly 4 meters deep, that is, a flood of 4 meters of salt water on the coast that this hurricane will bring to the coast of Florida.”

He emphasized that Milton is reaching the record levels of hurricanes like Irma (2017) and Dorian (2019) that have been intense in recent years.

“We must prepare for the eventuality of having systems of this nature causing this type of impact more frequently in a warming world. It cannot be stopped until we cut off the injection of burning fossil fuels into the atmosphere, those gases that trap heat”, he concluded in the dialogue with Noticias Caracol live.

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