Mark Vogan
THIS POST SHALL BE UPDATED THROUGHOUT WEDNESDAY AS MARIA CROSSES PUERTO RICO! 11.55am BST BREAKING: Hurricane Maria has made landfall on the southeast shore of Puerto Rico as a 155 mph Cat 4 storm. Slight weakening occurred just prior to PR landfall with the collapse of eye and replacement of outer eyewall. #Maria making landfall […]
Hurricane Jose is barely a hurricane and isn’t looking healthy with most of the convection and energy on the northern side as seen in the latest infrared loop. While Jose will weaken and won’t directly impact the United States, it will bring wet and windy conditions up and down the East Coast with greatest impacts […]
A new week, same weather pattern with HP building in today providing a drier, less showery Tuesday only to get replaced by another incoming Atlantic system Wednesday. Tuesday night into Wednesday turns increasingly wet and windy, esp N/W Britain with potential S gales through the Irish Sea/North Channel along with high rain amounts for Cumbria, […]
During a recent visit back home to Northern Ireland with the family I managed to visit Katesbridge and the famous weather station which frequently grabs national and international headlines for cold. A beautiful little hamlet, population 135 located in the rolling countryside of Drumlin country, County Down, Few places on the island compete with Katesbridge […]
While some battled heavy rain and the first severe gales of autumn today and many felt the early nip of autumn, you may or may not recall this day last year. TODAY… Deep low crosses UK https://twitter.com/bbcweather/status/907904344334446592 https://twitter.com/bbcweather/status/907874159836979200 https://twitter.com/BBCWthrWatchers/status/907870413027467266 Winds were stronger and damage greater on the continental side of the North Sea. https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/907966170460033024 Cold […]
Irma made a 2nd US and Florida landfall at Cat 4 intensity today. https://twitter.com/weatherchannel/status/906984234069278720 https://twitter.com/weatherchannel/status/906991544753893377 https://twitter.com/AMHQ/status/906897431215964160 https://twitter.com/CNNweather/status/906984511287824386 https://twitter.com/RyanAFournier/status/906948284215939072 https://twitter.com/StuOstro/status/906975475825815553 https://twitter.com/bohemianceliac/status/906959228140707840 https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/906852958918385665 https://twitter.com/philklotzbach/status/906881395057844225 https://twitter.com/WFLAJosh/status/906964645365329921 NOW: Powerful Category 4 Irma makes 1st US landfall on Cudjoe Key Florida Hurricane Irma makes it’s first US landfall on Cudjoe Key, Florida at 9.10am ET as a Category 4 with […]
After maintaining 185 mph sustained winds for a record breaking 37 straight hours and buzz sawing through the Caribbean islands of Barbuda, Saint Martin, Turks and Caicos to name some, Irma now sets it’s sights on the southern Bahamas and Florida through the next 48 hours. Though ‘sustained’ winds were reduced to 150 mph and […]
No change in the overall setup from Friday. Instead of fine sunny September weather, we appear to have stormy September weather on the way later this week and into next. According to the latest run of the GFS the first ‘windy’ low hits Thursday with coastal/high elevation gales generating rough seas. In it’s wake, it […]


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