Tropical weather
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Another day, another update on Investigation 99L. Investigation 99L is still alive and moving to the WNW towards the Florida Straits and the Gulf of Mexico. While it is still disorganized, it is moving into an area of very warm ocean temperatures and less wind shear, so chances of developing into a tropical depression have…
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Investigation 99L has confounded forecasters’ attempts to figure out when, where and even if it is going to develop into a tropical storm, much less where it might be going. Originally hurricane forecasts predicted that it would organize into a tropical depression and storm and then cross southern Florida. But the storm development has been…
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In 1992 on August 24, Hurricane Andrew made landfall just south of downtown Miami as a major hurricane, causing incredible devastation across the south Florida peninsula before it emerged into the Gulf of Mexico on its way to a second landfall in Louisiana. My husband and I visited Miami ten months after Andrew hit and…
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NOTE: Latest update on the bottom of this entry My Facebook feed has been jammed with posts from meteorologist friends uploading the latest computer models of where Investigation 99L might go and how strong it might get. (For those of you who don’t follow tropical weather news closely, Investigation 99L is an area of disturbed…
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The tropics are becoming more active, and the National Hurricane Center is watching three tropical waves in the Atlantic now, with a fourth one coming off the coast of Africa in the next few days. Tropical Depression Fiona is still around in the Atlantic far from land but is expected to degrade into a remnant low in…
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The tropics are starting to heat up with the development of Tropical Depression 6, which is expected to become TS Fiona within a few days. It won’t hit the Southeast in all probability, but the next storm might come a lot closer. Here are two web sites with helpful information on preparing for a tropical…
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It seems that the national media is finally becoming aware of the unfolding tragedy that is the flooding occurring in Louisiana. There have been many more reports on the flooding in the last couple of days. So far, 9 people have been killed and over 20,000 displaced by the flooding. According to the Wunder Blog,…