Tropical weather
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Hurricane seasonal forecasts usually provide an estimate of the number of storms that you can expect in a given season. This year, with an El Nino expected to develop rapidly over the next few months, could be a rare year when the El Nino warming in the Eastern Pacific Ocean is especially strong, leading to…
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NOAA will be offering a series of five hurricane awareness webinars starting April 29, 2026, and going through May on several topics of interest to the Southeast. The first webinar will be a review of the 2025 season, which did not have much impact on the Southeast other than TS Chantelle but had a big…
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The first official forecast of the 2026 Atlantic tropical season was released this week by Colorado State University scientists. It shows that they are expecting the number of named storms to be slightly below the long-term average and all of the other related hurricane variables like accumulated energy are also expected to be below average.…
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Those who work in coastal parts of the region will be especially affected by the likely loss of access to a hurricane evacuation planning web-based tool, known as HURREVAC, that is owned by FEMA and administered by the US Army Corps of Engineers. It is used by meteorologists and emergency planners to identify areas that need to…
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Those of you who have had to deal with the aftermath of recent tropical disasters like Hurricanes Helene, Ian, and Matthew will likely relate to the days of heat that emergency workers had to deal with during the clean-up of the storms. Some of my colleagues at the University of Georgia recently published a paper…
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November 30 marked the official end of this year’s Atlantic hurricane season. It was a quiet one in the United States, with no landfalling hurricanes and just one tropical storm, Chantal. But the season as a whole was not that quiet and ended with a bang as Hurricane Melissa flattened a large part of western…
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Even though it is not quite the end of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, the tropics are very quiet right now and no additional storms are expected. Tropical expert Brian McNoldy recently wrote a detailed description of this year’s hurricane season that you might find interesting. You can read it at https://bmcnoldy.blogspot.com/2025/11/summary-of-unusual-2025-hurricane-season.html. In the summary,…