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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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…

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9/15/20 Late AM Sally update: weak flow, dry air, some shear, cooler water, Cat 1

It looks like the westward progression of Hurricane Sally may be coming to an end. The latest water vapor imagery from the College of DuPage shows some modest flow in the mid-levels that is –…

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9/15/20 Early AM NHC Sally update: Slight weakening, reorganization attempt

SUMMARY OF 100 AM CDT LOCATION…28.8N 88.0W ABOUT 75 MI…120 KM ESE OF THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER ABOUT 115 MI…190 KM SSE OF BILOXI MISSISSIPPI MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…90 MPH…150 KM/H PRESENT MOVEMENT…W OR…

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9/14/20 Late AM Hurricane Sally Gulf Coast breakdown

The late morning advisory came down from the National Hurricane Center and the Hurricane Hunters noted a shift in the position as the center tries to re-form. This may eventually mean some dramatic implications for…

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9/14/20 AM Tropical Storm Sally NHC update: Still on track to make landfall sometime Tuesday

For all of the shifts of the cone back and forth, the timing for landfall for Sally is still on track. Tuesday. At some point. This is turning into quite the difficult system to forecast…

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9/13/20 4PM Tropical Storm Sally update: Latest technical discussion from the NHC

The latest from the National hurricane Center was just released. Here is a completel look at all of the informaiton being distributed by the NHC. SUMMARY OF 400 PM CDT… LOCATION…27.8N 85.9W ABOUT 165 MI…265…

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9/13/20 Tropical Storm Sally Late AM update: As much data as I can cram into a blog post

As Tropical Storm Sally presses to the west-northwest across the Gulf of Mexico, it is now slated to be a Category 2 Hurricane at landfall. But that is not set in stone. There is still…

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