Tropical weather
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The first forecast for the Atlantic hurricane season for 2017 is now out. Colorado State University issued their forecast today and it shows that they are expecting a slightly below normal hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean basin. This is due to the current neutral ENSO conditions, which are expected to transition into an El…
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NOAA announced yesterday that the official report from the National Hurricane Center on Hurricane Matthew is now available. Matthew caused 34 direct deaths in the Southeast along with several indirect deaths following the storm’s passage. Of those, 25 deaths were in North Carolina. The highest rainfall amount of the storm in the US was 18.95…
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As I write this, Hurricane Debbie is hitting the northeast coast of Australia. While it’s not the strongest hurricane to hit the country, it is still packing a punch. Newser has a story with links to other feeds about the storm as it comes onshore. One of the biggest impacts is expected to be the…
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NOAA reported this morning (link) that the World Meteorological Organization has retired the storm names “Matthew” and “Otto” from their list of storm names. You probably remember the impacts of Matthew, which hit the East Coast and caused incredible damage to eastern North Carolina as well as brought rain to the coasts of Georgia and…
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While the National Hurricane Center’s web site indicates no tropical storm development in the next five days, there are signs in several of the computer forecast models that something tropical may be brewing in the Atlantic Ocean off the East Coast. If the forecasts are accurate, then we could see the first tropical-type storm of…
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NOAA released a description of some changes to the suite of products put out by the National Hurricane Center which will become effective in the upcoming Atlantic tropical season. The updates include storm surge watches and warnings and some enhancements in watches and warnings for storms that have not yet reached official storm status. You…
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Final reports on Hurricane Hermine and Tropical Storm Julia are now available from the National Hurricane Center. You can find the one for Hermine at https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL092016_Hermine.pdf and the one for Julia at https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL112016_Julia.pdf. The report for Hurricane Matthew is still being finalized and will be available in a few weeks.