Low wind shear, warm seas and African waves: three conditions that trigger storm activity in the Atlantic this time of year.
Been a quiet season so far, but that changed in the past few days.
Jeff Masters says we should/could have three named storms any minute now.
After one of the slowest starts to hurricane season in the [...]
Thursday, September 25, 2008
A little bit subtropical, a little tropical.
And kicking up the coast and well inland.
FPS buoy has the numbers.
Pretty windy here in the Piedmont.
Wunder:
A powerful extratropical storm (94L) with some tropical characteristics is bringing tropical storm-like conditions to the waters just offshore the U.S. coast, from South Carolina to Virginia. QuikSCAT data from this morning and [...]
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Tropical Storm Fay to become a hurricane.
Via Reuters:
Despite the mountainous terrain of Haiti, which had been expected to hamper the storm’s development, Fay held together quite well overnight, the Miami-based hurricane center said.
The storm’s forecast track had also shifted a little to the south and west, meaning it would spend more time than initially expected [...]
OK, that was fast.
Tropical Storm Cristobal forms off the Carolinas coast.
You want to read this;
And pay a virtual visit to BUOY 41004
Not something you want to see just off the coast — a rapidly organizing tropical depression.
Masters:
None of the models forecast that TD 3 will intensify beyond a 50 mph tropical storm, due to the relatively cool water temperatures, moderate wind shear, and the presence of dry air nearby. I think TD 3 is organizing a [...]
Bertha is now a hurricane.
If you recall, in 1996 Hurricane Bertha hit the lower NC coast and did some pretty nasty damage. Drove down the day after and there was a lot of erosion.
She cleared the way, so to speak, for her big sister — Hurricane Fran.
Prediction models for Bertha 08 are unclear, but we [...]
Looks like the second tropical storm of the season — Bertha — is chugging along.
Here’s the five day forecast map
And Dr. Jeff’s take
Bertha’s at 25° West longitude is the farthest east a tropical storm has ever formed in the Atlantic so early in the season.
He also notes that it is likely that this means [...]