Tropical weather
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Earlier this week Jonathan Belles at the WunderBlog discussed whether having the record earliest “D” tropical storm in the Atlantic Ocean predicted what the activity would be for the rest of the season. You can watch a video and read about it here. Based on his statistics, seasons that are active early don’t really indicate…
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If you are interested in seeing which hurricanes and tropical storms have passed through your area in the past, you should try out the NOAA hurricane track viewer. You can access it at https://www.climate.gov/maps-data/dataset/historical-hurricane-tracks-gis-map-viewer. It includes tracks going back for the last 150 years, although areas far from land may be underrepresented because no satellites were…
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One of my favorite site, https://earth.nullschool.net, is showing the broad circulation around Tropical Storm Colin. You can see that there is a tremendous amount of moisture being pulled into the Southeast ahead of the storm. It is no wonder that rainfall amounts of up to several inches of rain are predicted to occur over the next…
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The National Hurricane Center noted the official development of Tropical Storm Colin this afternoon at 5:30 EDT. This is the earliest ever in the season for a third named storm. Colin is forecast to continue to develop and move off to the northeast over the next few days. It is expected to land on the Florida…
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Back in June 2001, Tropical Storm Allison dropped immense amounts of rain across Texas before the remains of the storm moved slowly across the Southeast, causing flooding and damage from tornadoes across a wide swath of the eastern US. As with many tropical storms, winds were not the main impact of the storm–instead the heavy…
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Weather Underground‘s latest blog lists ten myths about hurricanes that are not true. Since the tropical season has already started, it’s important to know about the storms that could affect us here in the Southeast (and beyond!) this summer. You can read the list at https://www.wunderground.com/news/hurricane-myths-debunked-2016#prclt-FiGV1ecp.
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Early indications in long-term weather forecast models indicate that there is a pretty good chance of a tropical system developing in the Gulf of Mexico early next week and moving across the Florida panhandle by Tuesday. If this system does develop and reach tropical storm strength, it would be called Colin. Since it is almost…