Tropical weather
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As you should know by now, Tropical Storm Cristobal has formed in the Bay of Campeche and is slowly organizing and gaining strength. It is predicted to pick up speed moving to the north and is expected to make landfall along the central Louisiana coast sometime late Sunday. The forecasts have been quite consistent so…
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As of 2 pm on June 2, Tropical Storm Cristobal has formed in the Bay of Campeche west of the Yucutan Peninsula of Mexico. It is not very organized at the moment but is expected to slowly wander around that area gaining strength until it gets pushed north by high pressure centered over the Florida…
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The National Hurricane Conference is online this week Monday through Thursday. There are a bunch of talks discussing evacuation plans and successes, the outlook for the 2020 season, how to communicate about flood insurance and evacuation plans, and how to prepare your community for hurricane season. You can see the full list at https://hurricanemeeting.com/virtual-session-agenda/. If…
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Today is the first day of the official start of the Atlantic Hurricane Season. You are sure to see lots of information on Facebook, Twitter and other sources. I will be retweeting and sharing some of that from my social media accounts. One resource I want to mention is the new South Carolina 2020 Hurricane…
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Today is the official start of the Atlantic Hurricane Season. We’ve already had two named storms this year, and it looks highly likely that a third will develop in the Bay of Campeche in the next five days as the remnants of Eastern Pacific TS Amanda regroup there. It is expected to be designated as…
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We’ve had an early start to the 2020 Atlantic tropical season, with two named storms before the season even officially started. There is a 50 percent chance of a third storm developing in the Atlantic in the next 48 hours. This has never happened before in the records we have for hurricanes going back to…
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While folks in the Southeast watch the end of TS Bertha and look ahead to the impending Atlantic tropical season, tropical cyclones have already been causing misery in other parts of the world. Last Wednesday Super Cyclone Amphan (a category 5 storm) moved north from the Bay of Bengal and made landfall on the coasts…