Tropical weather
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Over the last two days the front has pushed through a lot of the Southeast and an area of low pressure is forming along the nearly stationary front in NE Florida. This low is expected to drift east or northeast over the Atlantic Ocean, where it has a 60% chance of becoming Tropical Storm Chantal.…
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The National Hurricane Center is watching a front that is currently passing through the Southeast dropping rain and causing some scattered severe weather for the next couple of days for the chance of tropical development over the weekend as it stalls in northern Florida. As of tonight, the chance of development over the next week…
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Today an area of low pressure organized as it moved from the Yucatan Peninsula west into the Bay of Campeche. It has continued to develop today into a tropical depression and there is a chance that it could briefly become Tropical Storm Barry tonight or tomorrow morning before it moves over northeast Mexico and falls…
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A piece of very bad news for those of us who live in the hurricane region of the United States was released this past week. The U.S. Department of Defense announced it would immediately stop ingesting, processing, and transmitting data essential to most hurricane forecasts. This data is essential to accurate forecasting of hurricane conditions…
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Tropical Storm Andrea has come and gone quickly and the next week looks like it will be a quiet one for the Atlantic tropics. The National Hurricane Center is showing a small region of potential development in the southern Gulf, but it only has a 20% chance of developing in the next week so it…
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(UPDATE as of 6/24 at 10 pm: Today TS Andrea formed in the central Atlantic and became the first named storm of the Atlantic season. It is not expected to last long.) Today there is an area of disturbed weather in the central Atlantic Ocean that has a 70% chance of briefly developing tropical characteristics…
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I’ve seen a lot of stories in the news relating weather and climate to scientific research studies or the Southeast. A few were also on the upcoming hurricane season. Here are some that you might find interesting. Tulane University: Study shows how El Niño and La Niña climate swings threaten mangroves worldwide Meteorological Technology International:…