(HSEM) — On Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022, at 8 a.m., CNMI Homeland Security and Emergency Management the Office of the Governor, and other local government agencies took part in the 2022 Natural Hazards Seminar and Media Workshop organized and conducted by Landon Aydlett and Brandon Aydlett of the National Weather Service-Guam at the LaoLao Bay Golf & Resort.
The seminar discussed the influence of climate change on tropical cyclones on Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, and how it has been notoriously difficult to separate from natural changeability. But an increasingly consistent picture has shown some aspects of these extreme weather events, although the exact extent of these events is still difficult to determine expectantly in today’s observations. Many of the observed trends in tropical cyclones are at least theoretically consistent with expectations from a warming climate.
The objective of the seminar was to familiarize media and decision makers with the natural hazards that threaten the region, the behavior of those hazards, the emergency information and instructions issued by the NWS and its associates, and how to make critical decisions based on the emergency information provided.
The goal is to help steer the focus on events 3-5 days out to plan and prepare accordingly based on the severity of the tropical cyclones and to disseminate to the public warnings and safety precautions to help maintain protection for Guam and CNMI residents.
