How to pronounce “landfall” in English

In the fall of 2005,six weeks after Hurricane Katrina made landfall I arrived in New Orleans.I think I saw it in the paper God answered my prayers.

And then the record starts to deteriorate.We have a reasonable understanding of US landfalling hurricanes, and Caribbean hurricanes going back much further than that.You have to understand that only about 11% of the world's tropical cyclones, which is the generic term for a hurricane, occur in the Atlantic, even though they

Let's change disaster response.So we were actually pretty well poised when that storm made landfall.

Let's change disaster response.We actually had somebody staffing a desk in that office when it made landfall.

It's now category one. Hurricane Lala is bearing down on Hawaii. It could be the first hurricane to make direct landfallon the Big Island in 155 years.

What about the likelihood of it actually reaching the Big Island?So, that would be very interesting because there has not been, as you mentioned, a direct hurricane landfall on record in Hawaii, which is ratherstrange to think about. Interestingly, the mountains, the high topography and the terrain of the Big Island are