During a landfalling tropical system – Tropical Depression, Tropical Storm, or Hurricane – it is important to know which quadrant of the storm you are going to be impacted by.
Tag: hurricanes
Wx Info: How do hurricanes form? (Video)
Despite how easy it looks, making a hurricane is actually pretty difficult to do. There are dozens of African Easterly Waves (we usually just call these “Tropical Waves”) that traverse the Atlantic Ocean every season,…
Attempting to develop new Tropical ‘Threats’ Scale
I’m no Herbert Saffir or Robert Simpson, but I do like thinking outside the box and challenging myself with trying to find order in chaos. Truly, I think that is why I love meteorology so…
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2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season: An exaggerated example of an unnerving trend
As we get toward the end of a long – and I mean LONG – Atlantic Hurricane Season, I wanted to pause for a moment and reflect on the trend we are seeing in the…
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NHC tracking seven – yeah, seven! – areas in the Tropical Atlantic
Welcome to the peak of Hurricane Season in the Atlantic. September 10th. Mother Nature must’ve gotten the memo. Right now, the National Hurricane Center is monitoring seven different areas for possible development. From the NHC…
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Hurricane Marco continues northward while TS Laura forecast shifts again
As anticipated, Tropical Storm Marco continues to move north toward the central Gulf Coast. People in Louisiana and Mississippi will need to continue to monitor forecasts closely. Tropical Storm Laura, also somewhat anticipated, is now…
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Hype-free: Two tropical storms headed into the Gulf – what we know, don’t know, can’t know, and want to know
As most of you guys know,I never claim to have all of the answers. But, I know there are a TON of questions floating around with these two storms and – with the reasonable rarity…
Tropical activity continues to gain momentum with TD13 and Invest97L
This may be a pretty lengthy and detailed write up, so feel free to skim it for the parts you want. Or read the whole thing and be super informed! As the long-awaited Kelvin Wave…
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Hurricane Camille: 51 years later
Fifty-one years ago a Category Five hurricane moved ashore along the Mississippi coast and changed thousands of lives forever. But the story of Camille didn’t stop at the coast. The storm moved through parts of…
Ask NASA: Improving hurricane forecasts from space
NASA – yeah, NASA – has a hand in improving hurricane forecasts every year. Not directly, as that is left to the smart meteorologists at the National Hurricane Center, but indirectly through access to new…
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