Quite the eventful day across the area. Where we stand now… Tropical Storm Olga is still merging with a weakening cold front. That is providing some extra ‘umph’ to the showers and storms we are…
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PTC16 / Invest96L creeps NE in Gulf, development likely
PTC 16 / Invest 96L continues to drift to the NW across the Bay of Campeche. Cold cloud tops and some lightning has been noted on GOES 16 data. Some tropical meteorologists and researchers have…
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Area in the Gulf worth watching as PTC 17 drifts north from Pacific
As I mentioned a few times last week, there was going to be an area to watch in the Gulf of Mexico as we move toward the end of this week. And here we are.…
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WX Info: Monsoon Gyre vs Tropical Wave
I received a good question on Twitter that I couldn’t answer it quickly and easily – and with the allotted number of characters – so I wanted to take some time to answer it here.…
9/25/19 Tropical Storm Karen Update – a hype-free look at what we know
It seems like Tropical storm Karen is getting a lot of attention from folks during the last 48 hours. It is understandable. The last few years has featured multiple landfalling tropical systems – some more…
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9/24/19 PM Tropical Update – Jerry, Karen, and Lorenzo
There are still a lot of uncertainties with with what is happening in the Tropics right now. A lot of the uncertainty surrounds the movement of Karen and how that may impact the weather in…
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9/23/19 Tropical Update – Jerry, Karen, Lorenzo
There are a lot of unknowns with today’s Tropical Update. More than normal, honestly. Not so much in the three-day forecast. But once we look out beyond Day Three and into Thursday and into the…
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9-19-19 PM Tropical Update – Humberto, Imelda, Jerry and three waves
9/18/19 10AM Tropics Update: Humberto, Imelda, Jerry, and three waves
Quite the active scene in the Tropics. Across parts of the eastern Pacific and northern Atlantic there are six named storms and three other areas of interest. Not a record (to my knowledge) but probably…
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9/17/19 – Tropics get active: Humberto, Imelda and TD10
And just like that, things have picked back up again in the Atlantic. There is a Category 2 Hurricane, Humberto. A newly-minted Tropical storm, Imelda and a Tropical Depression east of the Leeward Islands. From…
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