The remnants of Tropical Storm Amanda in the Pacific are drifting north across part sof Central America and Mexico. As the remnant storms mix in with the Central American Gyre, the National Hurricane Center is…
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Gulf development possible, what it means for you
The National Hurricane Center is monitoring an area in the Gulf of Mexico for tropical development during the next five days. And because it wouldn’t be an early season tropical system in the Gulf if…
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Colorado State predicts active season; makes additional regional estimates
Colorado STate produces a hurricane forecast every year. You may ask, what do scientists in Colorado know about hurricanes? You’d be surprised. Philip J. Klotzbach, Michael M. Bell, and Jhordanne Jones are quite good at…
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Ask NASA: Using the latest tech to better forecast hurricanes
Your browser does not support the video tag. NASA has a unique and important view of hurricanes around the planet. Satellites and aircraft watch as storms form, travel across the ocean and sometimes, make landfall.…
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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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