The Weather of 9/11: Hurricane Erin, the Smoke Plume and an Empty Sky — 25 Years Later

Podcast: Meteorology Matters · Rob Jones

Opublikowano: 2026-09-11

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Twenty-five years after September 11, 2001, Meteorology Matters looks back at the extraordinary weather story unfolding alongside one of the darkest days in American history. That morning, New York City sat beneath an unusually clear post-frontal sky while Hurricane Erin churned hundreds of miles offshore. After the World Trade Center attacks, satellite imagery captured something remarkable: the enormous circulation of Erin over the Atlantic and the smoke and dust plume streaming away from lower Manhattan in the same...