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The current flood situation across Texas is not too dissimilar to what we saw in the Carolinas just 2 weeks ago. A separate system, this time pushing eastwards from the Four Corners, slows and draws on rich Gulf moisture which dumps 10+ inches of rain causing flash flooding. Then the beast that was Hurricane Patricia slams west coast Mexico and as the structural […]
Hurricane Patricia has went from Category 1, 85 mph system to Category 5, 200 mph tempest within a mere 30 hours! It threatens Mexico central Pacific coast with catastrophic destruction tonight! Here’s some imagery and analysis. Eye of Patricia is within 50 miles of the coast. Patricia exploded over unusually warm, El Nino induced […]
Rains are easing but incredibly still falling over parts of the Carolinas. Incredibly, close to 30 inches of rain has fallen between Friday and Monday. It was the ‘perfect storm’ scenario with no single player to blame but 3 to 4, even 5 components all coming together perfectly. Conway High School, SC Joaquin in my opinion […]
Potentially the greatest flood event in South Carolina history continues. It all started off when a frontal zone stalled just off the East Coast in which a system formed coast bringing an initial drenching to the Carolinas up into the Mid-Atlantic but as Hurricane Joaquin intensified and drifted SW over the Bahamas, the interaction between an unusually strong upper low spinning […]
The turn has begun after parts of the central Bahamas was ravaged by nearly 2ft of rain and pounded by tropical storm force winds for 3 straight days and hurricane-force winds for 1.5 days. At it’s peak, Joaquin’s wind gusts roared at between 125-130 mph winds over the parts of the multi-island paradise. Areas are inevitably devastated though pictures are slow to come […]
Within 150-200 miles of the Bahamas, Joaquin went from a strong 70 mph Tropical Storm to a Category 4 monster generating sustained winds of up to 130 mph as it spins directly over this beautiful island chain. The devastating aspect is twofold, 1) it’s a large and extremely powerful system but 2) the slow movement means that the Bahamas […]
In my previous post less than 24 hours ago, Joaquin wasn’t yet declared a hurricane but as of this writing it’s become a major, Category 3 storm with winds of 120 mph and pressure now said to be below 940mb. The latest recon flight this morning measured pressure at 938mb. The hurricane is currently lashing the […]
Not one, not two but THREE systems are setting the stage for a potentially devastating flood situation over the Eastern Seaboard through the next 5-7 days. We had the initial system which came out of the Gulf and is now pouring rain over the Northeast, then secondly we’ve got a frontal system pushing down from the Great […]
With low pressure continuing to organise east of the Carolinas beneath a building New England high, it looks like the Mid-Atlantic is set for several days of poor weather, a multiday wind and rain event. It’s going to be a downright miserable next several days as easterly gales persist, causing coastal flooding both by wave, wind and heavy […]
As forecast here back on August 24th, September was looking to be a warmer and better month for the very areas which suffered a cool and wet summer. For particularly the Central and Northern Plains, Great Lakes and Ontario, it’s been a downright hot and pretty dry September. The areas which saw more warmth and dryness June-August saw opposite […]
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