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Chris Becomes a Hurricane East of the Carolinas

Above: Visible satellite image of Chris as of 20Z (4 pm EDT) Tuesday, July 10, 2018. Image credit: RAMMB / CIRA @ CSU. Tropical Storm Chris became the second hurricane…

Beryl Significantly Weaker as We Expected

Above: Visible satellite image of Beryl from 9 am EDT Saturday, July 7, 2018. Beryl’s circulation center was exposed to view, with just one clump of heavy thunderstorms on the…

Big Drop in CSU’s Atlantic Hurricane Outlook; Quiet Atlantic, Active Pacific

Above: Sea surface temperatures (SSTs) analyzed at 2 am EDT Tuesday, July 3, 2018, across the North Atlantic, as compared to the 1981-2010 average SST for this time of year,…

East Pacific Overachieving, Atlantic and Northwest Pacific Underwhelming

Above: Four systems in various stages of potential development were highlighted in the tropical weather outlook issued by the NOAA/NWS National Hurricane Center at 8 am EDT Monday, June 25,…

Meteorologists United on Climate Change

Above: West Palm Beach broadcast meteorologist Jeff Berardelli (CBS12) with the warming-stripes graphic being used in Thursday’s Meteorologists United on Climate Change campaign. Image credit: Courtesy Jeff Berardelli. Close to…

Five Years after El Reno, “The Man Who Caught the Storm” Is a Stunner

Above: In this file photo from May 26, 2006, in Ames, Iowa, Tim Samaras shows the probes he was using when trying to collect data from a tornado. Image credit:…

NOAA Predicts a Near-Normal or Above-Normal Atlantic Hurricane Season; Update on 90L

Above: The strongest Atlantic hurricane of 2017, Hurricane Irma, as seen by the MODIS instrument on September 5, 2017. At the time, Irma was at peak strength, a Category 5…

Tropical Weather Update 10 AM 5/23/2018

The National Hurricane Center currently has a 60 percent chance that the low will become a subtropical or tropical cyclone over the central or eastern Gulf over the next 5…

Special Tropical Weather Outlook 05/21/2018

Special Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 830 AM EDT Mon May 21, 2018, For the North Atlantic…The Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: Widespread cloudiness…

Hurricane season may be even worse in 2018 after a harrowing 2017

Flooded homes at Citrus Park in Bonita Springs, Florida on 16 September 2017, six days after Hurricane Irma. Photograph: Nicole Raucheisen/AP The peak season for Atlantic storms, which officially starts…

Rare Tropical Storm in Gulf of Aden May Affect Yemen, Somalia, Djibouti

Above: Infrared satellite image of Tropical Cyclone 1A (center) and related thunderstorm activity (lower right). Image credit: RAMMB-CIRA/CSU. Tropical Cyclone 1A, which developed late Wednesday between Yemen and Somalia, could…

Gulf of Mexico Disturbance Bringing Heavy Rains to Florida, and May Develop

Above: GOES-East satellite image of the Gulf of Mexico disturbance, taken at 6:30 pm EDT May 13, 2018. Image credit: NOAA/RAMMB. The Atlantic hurricane season officially starts on June 1,…

An upper level low over the Gulf of Mexico is worth watching early in the week

The Atlantic hurricane season officially starts on June 1, but we could see a tropical or subtropical depression form in the Gulf of Mexico by Wednesday off the coast of…

La Niña is Gone; Severe Weather in Late-Spring Mode

Above: Near-neutral conditions across the tropical Pacific were evident in this depiction of seasonally adjusted sea-surface heights for April 24, 2018, as measured by a radar-based altimeter aboard NASA’s Jason-3…

A severe weather regime that looks more like June than May

Weak upper-level flow and warm temperatures at the surface and aloft will rule the U.S. roost over the next few days, leading to patterns of severe weather more akin to…

2018 Hurricane Awareness Tour Coming to Baton Rouge, LA!

Ever been fascinated by hurricanes or wondered how in the world people fly safely into them? Have a passion for flying and love viewing various aircraft? Check out this 2-minute…

Hurricane Preparedness Week (May 6-12, 2018) is your time to prepare

Find out today what types of wind and water hazards could happen where you live, and then start preparing now for how to handle them. Hurricanes are not just a…

NHC Atlantic Tropical Weather Discussion

000 AXNT20 KNHC 271156 TWDAT Tropical Weather Discussion NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 756 AM EDT Fri Apr 27 2018 Tropical Weather Discussion for North America, Central America Gulf…

The Cool Weather Hangs On into May in the South!!!

The month has averaged in the first 3 weeks well below normal at levels not observed in some places in the record. See how persistent the cold was for the…

The Southeast is shaping up for above Avg Rainfall this Summer.

The southeast has been dry the last 60 days in a typical La Nina pattern where the rains stay northwest. That is changing. A few waves of showers have swept…

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