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When it comes to writing about Taiwan weather, it’s usually regarding typhoons and or rainfall. This time it’s about heat and it appears the capital set a new national heat record for the month of September on Wednesday with a high of 38.5C. This surpasses the Taiwan September record of 37.8C set back in 2014. […]
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Lowering heights over the deep warm waters of the southern Caribbean Sea means it doesn’t take much cyclonic turning to pop off a cyclone. With hurricanes tracking mainly north of the islands this year ocean heat content which is a measure of heat and depth combined is about as high as it gets over the […]
Article from wunderground.com Jonathan Belles Published: September 25, 2017 Hurricane Maria took down one of Puerto Rico’s main weather monitoring radars as it roared across the island territory last week, and new photographs show how bad the damage is. (COMPLETE HURRICANE MARIA COVERAGE: Hurricane Central) The dome that covers the radar antenna, called a radome, […]
From wunderground.com September 26, 2017 Tropical Storm Harvey has set a preliminary U.S. rainfall record for any tropical storm or hurricane on record. According to the NWS in Lake Charles, Louisiana, a gauge near Nederland, Texas has reported a preliminary 64.58 inches of rain between Aug. 24 and Sep. 1. If confirmed, it would be the heaviest […]
Brian Donegan Published: September 26, 2017 September 2017, with Category 5 hurricanes Irma and Maria and Category 4 Hurricane Jose, has been the most active month of any Atlantic hurricane season on record. (MORE: Hurricane Central) Though not necessarily indicative of impact, a good way to rank the most extreme months of a hurricane season is using a parameter called […]
Dr. Jeff Masters · September 20, 2017 Above image: Damage on the Lesser Antilles island of Dominica, after Hurricane Maria hit as a Category 5 storm with 160 mph winds. Maria killed at least 7 people on Dominica, and 2 on neighboring Guadeloupe. Image from a video by the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency. After […]
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 […]
The GFS ensemble 500mb height anomaly 5 day increments continue to show a vulnerable US coastline with eastern Canada ridge which opens the door to tropical cyclone hits underneath. We don’t just have Jose on the table which is likely to be mainly a strong Nor’easter for the Northeast with last minute weakening and recurve next week but the models […]
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