Tropical weather
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Hurricanes sometimes go through a cycle where their eye wall disappears as a new eye wall forms farther out from the center and tightens up. This is called an eye wall replacement cycle. You can see one in Hurricane Matthew today at https://tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/mimic-tc/2016_14L/webManager/displayGifsBy12hr_06.html. Very cool!
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Major Hurricane Matthew has made the expected turn to the north and is now bearing down on Jamaica, Haiti and eastern Cuba. It is expected to dump feet of rain in some mountainous terrain, according to yesterday’s WunderBlog here. This could lead to widespread severe damage and many deaths, particularly in Haiti where the rainfall…
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Over the course of the last day, Hurricane Matthew has grown tremendously into a Category 5 hurricane with winds of 160 mph over the southeastern Caribbean Sea. Very warm sea surface temperatures in the region are contributing to the rapid growth and will continue to affect it for the next few days. While most of the computer…
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The Florida Climate Center has released a report which summarizes the development and impacts of Hurricane Hermine in Florida as it crossed across the Southeast a few weeks ago. You can find it at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/images/docs/Hurricane_Hermine_Fla_summary.pdf.
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This morning at 11 am the National Hurricane Center began issuing advisories on Tropical Storm Matthew, which formed from Investigation 97L. The NHC has been watching this investigation cross the Atlantic for several days but it has finally developed the closed circulation that allows it to be designated as a tropical storm. Currently Matthew is…
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Around midnight on September 22, 1989, Hurricane Hugo came ashore near Charleston SC and moved rapidly inland. I flew through Charlotte just a day after Hugo moved through and was amazed at the damage in the area I saw from the air and how red the rivers were running with all the eroded clay soils…
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This Day in Weather History‘s Facebook page showed a photo of Tropical Storm Esther on September 20, 1061 as taken from the TIROS satellite. As far as I can tell, this is the first time that a tropical storm was identified first by satellite. Here’s the text accompanying the image: “September 20th, 1961 – On…