Wow, meteorologist Matt Lanza is leaving Houston — mostly to be closer to aging parents, but not entirely. Fortunately, he'll continue reporting for Space City Weather (and The Eyewall). I've been reading his stuff for ages.

Matt: "At a certain point I was like, is it better for me to be doing this job from somewhere else rather than constantly having to juggle both informing people and worrying about my family?"

And a great analogy: "The reality is that climate change is happening. ... It acts as a kind of force multiplier, which is to say that if you have an extreme event, climate change makes it a little bit worse.

"The best analogy I’ve heard is, you’ve got a baseball player that is taking performance-enhancing drugs, and maybe they hit 68 home runs. Without the drugs, maybe they would have hit 55. Climate change is the performance-enhancing drug of weather."

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/matt-lanza-leaving-houston/

h/t @bich

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