BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Ten years after historic rainfall inundated parts of south Louisiana, former Louisiana First News Chief Meteorologist Jesse Gunkel still vividly remembers watching the disaster unfold.
Gunkel served as chief meteorologist at Louisiana First News during the August 2016 flood, putting him in the position of forecasting the event and communicating an increasingly serious threat to viewers as relentless rainfall caused catastrophic flooding across the Baton Rouge area.
Current Louisiana First News Chief Meteorologist Jake Dalton sat down with Gunkel for a special “Chief to Chief” conversation, looking back at what forecasters were seeing in the days leading up to the flood, when Gunkel realized the situation was becoming historic and the challenge of communicating the severity of a storm that did not have a name…