During a landfalling tropical system – Tropical Depression, Tropical Storm, or Hurricane – it is important to know which quadrant of the storm you are going to be impacted by.
Tag: Tropical Weather
The PTC has wind greater than 39mph, why isn’t it a Tropical Storm?
It is a great question. And one you’re smart to ask! As a meteorologist who is all about public education, it makes me feel good to know that you are asking the right question. You…
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6/18/21 3p South Mississippi Tropical Update – PTC3 / Claudette continues to drift north
PTC isn’t Claudette, yet. Yet, it is trying its best to wrap itself up before landfall. In the above image the white arrows indicate the general atmospheric flow, the red arrows indicate the circulation around…
6/16/21 9PM: A – very brief – Tropical Update
Some of the new 00z data is coming down and I wanted ot make a quick post just to shovel out some data and add some context to it since I know it is about…
Wx Info: How do hurricanes form? (Video)
Despite how easy it looks, making a hurricane is actually pretty difficult to do. There are dozens of African Easterly Waves (we usually just call these “Tropical Waves”) that traverse the Atlantic Ocean every season,…
Tropical Update Facebook Video
Just in case you don’t check out my page, I wanted to post this video on the blog, too. I spent about 15 minutes going over some of the data for Invest 92L tonight. I…
6/14/21 Tropical Update: T.D. Two, Invest 92L and another Tropical Wave
It is like the start of a bad joke, am I right? So, T.D. Two, Invest 92L and another Tropical Wave walk into a bar… Bartender says “hey, we don’t like dealing with your kind…
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AM Tropical Update 6/13/21: Invest 92L guidance still unclear, except for one thing – rain
Looking at the overnight model guidance, things are starting to clear up a bit as to what we may eventually expect in terms of forecast track. But intensity and picking out a specific landfall are…
6/9/21 PM Tropical Update
Hey all, I was going to wait to post this tomorrow morning with the forecast, but I figured, why wait? So here is a look into the Tropics right now and everything that I know…
Welcome to Hurricane Season: Previewing the 2021 Atlantic Hurricane Season
This post has been a few weeks in the making. Maybe even a month or two, really. But the 2021 Atlantic Hurricane season is here, and well, aren’t we all just… wishing it wasn’t? It…
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