Central American Gyre may spawn tropical system late next week

The Central American Gyre is making waves again. For now, figuratively. But eventually, this may be literal. REcall that the Central American Gyre is a large area of lower pressure that can develop at any…

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Colorado State predicts active season; makes additional regional estimates

Colorado STate produces a hurricane forecast every year. You may ask, what do scientists in Colorado know about hurricanes? You’d be surprised. Philip J. Klotzbach, Michael M. Bell, and Jhordanne Jones are quite good at…

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Ask NASA: Using the latest tech to better forecast hurricanes

Your browser does not support the video tag. NASA has a unique and important view of hurricanes around the planet. Satellites and aircraft watch as storms form, travel across the ocean and sometimes, make landfall.…

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PTC16 / Invest96L creeps NE in Gulf, development likely

PTC 16 / Invest 96L continues to drift to the NW across the Bay of Campeche. Cold cloud tops and some lightning has been noted on GOES 16 data. Some tropical meteorologists and researchers have…

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9/25/19 Tropical Storm Karen Update – a hype-free look at what we know

It seems like Tropical storm Karen is getting a lot of attention from folks during the last 48 hours. It is understandable. The last few years has featured multiple landfalling tropical systems – some more…

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9/24/19 PM Tropical Update – Jerry, Karen, and Lorenzo

There are still a lot of uncertainties with with what is happening in the Tropics right now. A lot of the uncertainty surrounds the movement of Karen and how that may impact the weather in…

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9/23/19 Tropical Update – Jerry, Karen, Lorenzo

There are a lot of unknowns with today’s Tropical Update. More than normal, honestly. Not so much in the three-day forecast. But once we look out beyond Day Three and into Thursday and into the…

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