Tropical weather
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This combined satellite and radar image today shows the moisture streaming northeast from Tropical Storm Sandra into the front draped through Texas and points northeast. Fortunately for the Southeast, most of this moisture will not affect us but could cause flooding in the central US. Sandra is the strongest hurricane to hit so late in…
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The latest storm in the Eastern Pacific, Hurricane Sandra, could bring another plume of moisture to the south central US later this week. If the storm moves as expected, the moisture will feed into a front in the area and could lead to more wet conditions and potential flooding due to saturated soils that already present…
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Even though we are on the downside, the tropical season in the Atlantic is not quite over yet. Investigation 94 is gradually developing and could turn into a tropical depression or even a tropical storm in a day or two. If it did, it would be named Kate. Late Sunday Night: This storm was officially…
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The Washington Post‘s Capital Weather Gang had an excellent article summarizing the amazing record-breaking tropical season in the Northern Hemisphere this year. Not only did the numbers break the old records, they smashed them. The number of named storms was up 48 percent from normal, the number of hurricanes was 178 percent of normal, and…
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Two very strong tropical cyclones recent came onshore. Patricia slammed into a sparsely populated area of Mexico, while Chapala hit the war-torn area of Yemen in a very rare landfall on the Arabian Peninsula. Here are some images from the two storms which give you an idea of the impacts of the strong winds on…
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A rare occurrence of a tropical cyclone (equivalent to a hurricane in the Atlantic) making landfall on the Arabian peninsula is expected to occur this week as Chapala moves west towards Yemen and Oman. Some areas of the desert countries could receive up to 8 years’ worth of rain in 1 to 2 days. Chapala…
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With the landfall of record-setting Hurricane Patricia on the coast of Mexico, news agencies have been abuzz with stories about the storm and its aftermath. Fortunately, the storm came ashore on a relatively sparsely populated part of the coast away from major tourist cities, and since it was small in diameter most of the populated…