Thigns are looking a bit drier today, as we turned over the atmosphere pretty good, yesterday. Oh, there is stilla shot for rain. But it does look like storms may be a bit more sparse.…
Tag: Tropical Weather
VIDEO: South Mississippi forecast update for 7/20/21
I wanted to try to put together a quick video update for everyone. This is a 90-second weather briefing… I’m testing out a handful of new things and I thought this would be a fun…
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7/3/21 130PM Tropical Update: Tropical Storm Elsa
Tropical Storm Elsa is, well, a Tropical Storm… again. After a brief existence as a Hurricane, the system has moved into a less-favorable environment and weakened back to a Tropical Storm. The Hurricane Hunters have…
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Wx Info: Can two tropical cyclones combine and merge into one Super Hurricane?
No. Thankfully. Okay, not totally “No” but it doesn’t really work like a lot of us would commonly think. Tropical Cyclones, or tropical systems ss I usually call them, don’t often merge to become one…
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6/29/21 Tropical Update: Double-barrel Invest action – 95L & 97L – in the Atlantic
I’m going to start with some EPMD, “Never Seen Before” because “I’m back with the flyest material” of a snippet of Satellite imagery showing a subtropical system off the coast of Uruguay in South America.…
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Wx Info: Hurricane quadrants & tornado formation
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.
The PTC has wind greater than 39mph, why isn’t it a Tropical Storm?
It is a great question. And one you’re smart to ask! As a meteorologist who is all about public education, it makes me feel good to know that you are asking the right question. You…
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6/18/21 3p South Mississippi Tropical Update – PTC3 / Claudette continues to drift north
PTC isn’t Claudette, yet. Yet, it is trying its best to wrap itself up before landfall. In the above image the white arrows indicate the general atmospheric flow, the red arrows indicate the circulation around…
6/16/21 9PM: A – very brief – Tropical Update
Some of the new 00z data is coming down and I wanted ot make a quick post just to shovel out some data and add some context to it since I know it is about…
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,…
