Tropical
The Pacific off South America’s west coast is typically too cool for support tropical cyclones and so the feature which has popped up in the last 36 hours off Chile could be a first. The below chart showing global tropical cyclone tracks say it all. There is no record of anything in this region of […]
Dr. Jeff Masters · November 30, 2017, 1:17 PM EST The Atlantic hurricane season, which officially runs from June 1 to November 30, has finally drawn to a close. The brutal 2017 season was an awful reminder of the huge hurricane vulnerability problem we face, and how unprepared we are for a potential future where […]
Ophelia is poised to become the 10th straight Atlantic hurricane of the 2017 season which ties a very long standing record for most consecutive Atlantic named storms to become a hurricane. The other three years of which this has occurred is 1878, 1886 and 1893. This is a NHC track you don’t see everyday. TD Seventeen has […]
Hurricane Nate made it’s first landfall near the mouth of the Mississippi River, LA at 7pm ET Saturday night and later made a 2nd landfall near Biloxi, MS at 12.30am Sunday. Both landfalls were Category 1 with 85 mph winds. Nate weakened slightly prior to landfall due to land interaction, dry air and cooler waters from it’s peak intensity […]
The 7th hurricane of 2017 and Nate is destined to be the United States 3rd hurricane landfall of 2017. Droughts often end with a flood right? Once clear of competing forces in the Caribbean and land interaction, Nate has organised and strengthened quickly over the open Gulf of Mexico posing a significant threat on the US Gulf Coast tonight. […]
Nate is currently a 45 mph tropical storm which is now back over water and in fact the warmest, deepest water of the Caribbean Sea. This system formed within a large scale regional system call a ‘Central American Gyre’. Unfortunately this large envelop of enhanced convection along with Tropical Storm Nate has triggered deadly floods […]
As expected, TD 16 has been spawned from a Central American gyre. This looks to be trouble for not just Central America where rainfall will be prolific but also for the US. Modelling points to a hurricane landfall along the Gulf Coast somewhere between Louisiana and Florida this weekend. TS warnings up for Central America […]
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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, […]
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