Through most of the day yesterday, Hurricane Delta re-organized and intensified. It, steadily, grew from a Tropical Storm to a Category 2 Hurricane. This morning, it continues to strengthen and will likely make it to…
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10/6/20 Early AM Update: Hurricane Delta approaches Yucatan, forecast to become Major Hurricane
via GIPHY Hurricane Delta is making a good effort to get better organized and strengthen tonight. The Category 1 Hurricane spent most of the day wrapping around the centralized area of low pressure and is…
10/5/20 4PM NHC Advisory: Tropical Storm Delta forecast shifts, increases intensity
The 4PM Advisory is out from the National Hurricane Center. Here is the latest on Tropical Storm Delta. SUMMARY OF 500 PM EDT LOCATION…16.2N 79.4W ABOUT 160 MI…260 KM SSW OF NEGRIL JAMAICA ABOUT 245…
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Tropical Storm Delta continues organization, moving toward Gulf
Anyone else exhausted from Hurricane Season? I know I am. If this could be my last blog post for a hurricanes during 2020, I’d be ecstatic. This is getting old. But hey, here we are.…
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Invest92L churning in the Caribbean, heading toward Gulf
You know, it was a nice break. Along the Gulf Coast, we haven’t been bothered by a tropical system since Beta back on September 23rd. A full 10 days with nothing in the tropics to…
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Not Wx: Keeping time and the names for the Days of the Week
The other day, I was considering changing back to “Standard Time” in a few weeks and I started thinking about all of the abstract ways humans think about Time. Not to get too into the…
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Asteroid, 2020SW, passes between Earth and Moon
I have posted about astronomical “buzz cuts” before, but this one takes it to a new level. Asteroid 2020 SW is about to get really, really close to Earth. According to NASA, an asteroid will…
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Tropical Storm Beta continues to slowly spin in the Gulf
Because why not, right? If there is anything the 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season has taught me, it is that Professor Nicholson was right: “All the rules always apply… except when they don’t.” Having back-to-back systems…
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NHC designates disturbance in Bay of Campeche ‘Invest90L’
On the heels of Hurricane Sally, the National Hurricane Center is watching a different tropical disturbance in the Gulf, simultaneously. This area moved past the northern Gulf Coast last weekend and has been parked in…
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9/16/20 Early AM update: Sally close to landfall geographically, but not temporally, NHC increases intensity
Hurricane Sally continues to defy all odds and rapidly intensify under the most unlikely of situations. The storm did finally reduce the dry air entrainment, but it is sitting over not-as-warm-as-earlier waters that are also…
