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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 […]
For fans of autumn and winter, I hope you enjoy this weekend of cool, even rainy weather because another blast of summer is heading into the Midwest and East for October’s opening week. Yesterday’s high of 68 degrees in New York was the city’s coolest since Sep 2. The warmer West, cooler East is short […]
As east equatorial Pacific waters continue cooling, it looks like we on the brink of a La Nina. A very strong subsurface cool pool is on the brink of surfacing. Max anomaly near -4C at ~100m depth. #LaNina pic.twitter.com/OkHDQyZwu5 — Ethan Sacoransky (@blizzardof96) September 29, 2017 About as #LaNina as you can get here in […]
After what may feel like an eternity, first Jose and now Maria’s persistent wet and windy conditions is finally pulling out. https://twitter.com/weatherchannel/status/913013620191092737 https://twitter.com/weatherchannel/status/912976426210611202 As for the heat wave, well it’s been remarkable with the past two weeks witnessing the warmest period of record for much of the interior to the east of the Mississippi. https://twitter.com/WxBrianD/status/912826059808231424 […]
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 […]
We’ve an impressive late September heatwave with many major cities including Chicago recording their longest string of 90s so late in the season as well as the latest ‘hottest day of the year’. The heat is one thing but the level of chill coupled with heavy snowfall is major the spread of winter vs summer […]
September so far has been downright cold over the interior East from lower Mississippi Valley up through the Tennessee and Ohio Valleys and Appalachians while warm on the central Plains and especially central Rockies. However, as your reading this, it’s the complete opposite with a cold even snowy Western trough and warm Eastern ridge. This […]
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 […]
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