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The Pacific tropical season has been a highly active one, largely thanks to the on going strong El Nino. Between Thursday and Saturday, former hurricane Oho is tracking NE over the east Pacific and looks set to slam into the British Columbia/Alaska coast bringing potentially damaging winds and heavy rainfall. Meanwhile further south, heat resurges from Southern California […]
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 […]
Since the last US post yesterday, we now have Tropical Storm Joaquin spinning east of the Bahamas. This looks to support a secondary tropical invasion into the East Coast following the first soaking through the next 24-36 hrs. The first system lifts up through the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast but another southeastbound cold front looks set to lift out over the […]
As forecast back on August 24th, this September has been a May repeat for the Upper Midwest and Northeast and not just here but all the way back into the Desert Southwest. September 2015 will be long remembered as a warm month. In fact cities stretching from Las Vegas in the Southeast to New York in the […]
We’ve two areas of concern through the next 5+ days, the first is the system gathering force off the Carolinas bringing flooding rain, gusty winds and beach erosion to the Mid-Atlantic. This will move into the Northeast through the weekend on into early next week. Big rains yesterday for the Carolinas. The other area of […]
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