Meteorologist Jake Grant Discusses Fall Hurricane Season

(SALISBURY, Md) – As the Summer season comes to a close, the Eastern Shore is keeping their collective eyes on potential impacts as we enter the peak of Hurricane season.

We sat down with Meteorologist Jake Grant to talk about the conditions we need to keep an eye on over the next couple of months.

Jake explains, “When the peak intensity of the activity in the Atlantic occurs. And the reason for that timing is it’s when the waters are most prime with that warm water that hasn’t been disturbed. It is less windy out over the open ocean. There’s less dust, favorable conditions. Hurricanes do not like cold water, wind shear and dry air…”

Plenty of the Eastern Shore’s Coastal communities have already gotten a reminder this Summer as the impacts of Hurricane Erin were felt from Rehoboth Beach to Ocean City.

Showing that even a storm hundreds of miles away from land can cause trouble.

“We saw just the power of a storm hundreds of miles off the coastline and what it can do to our immediate coast in terms of erosion that can cause lasting issues throughout the season as it costs a lot of money to rebuild dunes and rebuild coastal erosion of dredge sand…” says Jake.

It isn’t just rough surf either, as the Eastern Shore could see even more flooding risk.

Jake says, “It doesn’t take a lot of water between just maybe if we get a new moon, we get a really strong tide. Combine that with storm surge or even a storm that’s hundreds of miles off the coast like we saw with Hurricane Erin that can push water onto land, calls, inundation and have a lasting impact in terms of flooding.”

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