Here is the latest from the National Hurricane Center: A Storm Surge Watch has been issued from Morgan City, Louisiana, eastward to the Alabama/Florida border, including the northern and western shores of Lake Pontchartrain. A…
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UPDATE: Tropical Storm Nate AM no-hype forecast
Tropical Storm Nate continues to move north across Nicaragua and Honduras. It will eventually – later today – get back over the warm waters of the Caribbean and begin to strengthen again. Here is the…
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Tropical Depression 16 (overnight) hype-free forecast
Tropical Depression 16 is still a tropical depression. That said, the National Hurricane Center anticipates that TD16 will strengthen into Tropical Storm Nate before 1pm Thursday. So enjoy it while it lasts, because TD16 will…
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Tropical Depression 16 forecast track
Now that we have a localized center, the models can start to really get a handle on where Tropical Depression 16 – and eventually Nate – will go. Here is a look at the storm…
Tropical Depression 16 to drift north toward Gulf, likely becoming Nate – Your Questions Answered
The 2017 Hurricane Season isn’t done yet. To quote Jay-Z it “is back before we had a chance to miss [it],” though I don’t know if any of us would “miss” hurricane season. Anyway! Newly…
Facebook Live: 10/2/17 Tropical Discussion
Good evening, everyone. Here is the 26 minute discussion about what is happening in the tropics. I know a lot of you are going to hear a lot about two areas of interest, the Central…
Hurricane Maria, now Category 5 storm, hits Dominica head on
The title says it all: Hurricane Maria is now a Category 5 storm. It made its first landfall on the small island of Dominica at 9:15pm local time. At that time, the estimated sustained wind…
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2am Irma hype-free update: Discussing forecast shift & downstream changes
Irma is a Category Five hurricane. It has wind speeds of 160mph. The storm is nearly 500 miles from west to east. It is moving to the west at 14mph. That movement though, isn’t as…
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Overnight Hurricane Irma update for South Mississippi in two words: Don’t stress
Hurricane Irma continues on its trek WNW at about 15 to 20mph. The forecast cone shift west late Thursday night. Understandably, for some, it brought a renewed sense of anxiety. Here is why that heightened…
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10am no-hype Hurricane Irma update, including pictures and video from Caribbean
Irma is still a major Hurricane. Wind speeds at 185mph put it as a Category 5 storm. It continues to move west-northwest at 15mph. Here is the latest Satellite image of Irma, thanks to the…
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