Tropical weather
-
With the early formation of Hurricane Alex in mid-January and the appearance of Hurricane Otto in Central America on Thanksgiving this year, you could ask if the Atlantic hurricane season is getting longer. Fortunately, Ryan Truchelut analyzed the trends in the season and published the results in a recent Capital Weather Gang posting. While the…
-
Today is not only the last day of meteorological fall but is also the last day of the Atlantic tropical season. For the Atlantic, this was the first above-normal season since 2012. The Atlantic saw 15 named storms during 2016, including 7 hurricanes (Alex, Earl, Gaston, Hermine, Matthew, Nicole, and Otto), 3 of which were…
Posted in: Tropical weather -
You may not remember Hurricane Alex, but it formed in mid-January this year, long before the official start of the Atlantic hurricane season on June 1. And now we have Hurricane Otto, which passed from the Atlantic to the Eastern Pacific Ocean yesterday, setting a record for the latest landfall in any calendar year in…
Posted in: Tropical weather -
While the official hurricane season is almost over, it’s not too late for a tropical storm to develop. And today we have TS Otto in the Caribbean Sea, a newly formed storm which may become a hurricane before it makes landfall straight west in Central America. You can read more about it at Weather Underground…
-
Weather Underground notes that it is not too late for a tropical storm or even a hurricane to affect the Atlantic basin this year in a blog post today at https://www.wunderground.com/news/november-hurricane-keep-your-hurricane-kits-available?__prclt=yyRexmVE. While the tropics are less active towards the end of the season, we can still have occasional storms. At the moment the National Hurricane…
Posted in: Tropical weather -
NOAA has an interesting photo story about how their scientists have been measuring the impacts of Hurricane Matthew on the coasts of the Southeast. This is the first time that the hurricane storm surge modeling scientists have been able to directly observe how well their forecasts did compared to the actual storm surges measured. You…
-
The “This Day in Weather History” Facebook page showed an interesting weather graphic today which lists the number of hurricanes which made landfall in the United States during each president’s term. The graphic is from Colorado State University, which noted that so far, “Barack Obama had the fewest U.S. landfalling hurricanes of any 2-term U.S. president…