Thomas Loridan
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Thomas Loridan
@tloridan.bsky.social
Tropical Cyclone and #hurricane Risk, Extreme Weather, #MachineLearning, Boundary Layer Meteorology, Reask Co-founder
Multi tasking and excelling at both tasks!
Credit due where credit's due 😉
January 30, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Reposted by Thomas Loridan
My next livestream will be 7pm PT this evening. My continuing focus will be the SoCal #wildfire disasters, as well as the new "extremely critical risk" event tonight into tomorrow plus the long-term outlook. #CAwx #CAfire #PalisadesFire #EatonFIre youtube.com/live/QeI...
Weather and climate office hours: 01/13/2025 topic: Coverage of SoCal wildfires & new wind event - YouTube
The latest in a recurring series of live, virtual, & interactive "office hours" hosted by Dr. Daniel Swain on various topics related to extreme weather and c...
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January 13, 2025 at 7:42 PM
@nicobruneau.bsky.social and I have been scratching our heads with #hurricane Andrew for a while now, and whichever way we look at it, it always seems like a very unlucky occurence. Curious to hear what the industry thinks about likely return period ?
December 14, 2024 at 8:50 PM
Reposted by Thomas Loridan
It's always fascinating to see how sparse our historical records of Major #Hurricane US landfalls are !

This is why we need stochastic event sets to fill these gaps, and get a better picture of the risk ( #NaturalDisaster #climaterisk ).
December 11, 2024 at 2:09 PM
Conditioning #hurricane parameter distributions to climate state is super important… otherwise we get stuck with backward looking static views of risk
It’s common to assume a Poisson distribution when sampling #tropicalcyclone frequency. However with a long-term average freq view, there is almost no chance to generate Atlantic #hurricane seasons like 2005 or 2020. At Reask, we prefer to condition the Poisson rate based on the state of the climate.
December 6, 2024 at 10:35 AM
Excited to see Nico posting his analysis on here, he consistently produces awesome #hurricane risk graphics:
Couple of exhibits from our seasonal forecast view of NA TC risk (what we released back in May 2024) with observations superimposed.
- Hurricane level % differences to long-term
- Same but zoomed on the Gulf of Mexico with the NHC 5-day cones about 36h before each landfall - quite some overlaps...
December 3, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Hurricane seasonal risk projection – before and after:

Back in May, our team used Reask #TropicalCyclone model (see links in comments) to highlight projected regions of increased seasonal #hurricanerisk .

6 months later, we can overlay observed activity on top of the our pre-season "heat maps":
November 25, 2024 at 11:59 AM
Superb work coming out of the Reask drought team - well done @marieshaylor.bsky.social
November 25, 2024 at 9:50 AM