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…
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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…
New area of concern in tropics may struggle to develop
The internet was buzzing this afternoon as the National Hurricane Center identified another area of interest in the tropics. This time, a cluster of storms associated with a trough of low pressure located over the…
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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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But, Katrina
2022 UPDATE: I’ve added the video below from the 15 year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina to add extra evidence tot eh proverbial ‘pile’ of data. 2017 ORIGINAL:It is something I’ve heard countless times during my…
Hurricane Irma no-hype 10am Update: Forecast, modeling and comics included
Hurricane Irma continues to straddle Cuba. Maximum sustained winds are near 125 mph with higher gusts, making Irma a Category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. The storm is forecast to restrengthen once…
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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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Hurricane Irma 8pm quick model update
Here is a quick look at the spaghetti model data and intensity model data from Tropical Tidbits. It is interesting to see the general shift in the track to the north and to the east.…
