A Disturbance in the Atlantic and 2 Typhoons in the Pacific to Watch
A tropical wave located at 11 am EDT Wednesday near 11°N, 25°W, about 200 miles south of the Cabo Verde Islands, was headed west at 10 – 15 mph, and…
Quiet in the Atlantic; Active in the East Pacific
It’s looking more and more likely that July 2017 will wrap up with no additional named storms in Atlantic Basin. Only one named storm formed this month, Don. It was…
Tornado in Maryland
Tornado in Maryland GOES-16 Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images, with surface station identifiers, plotted in yellow * GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational and are undergoing testing…
No firm travel plans for the solar eclipse? Here’s what to expect if you wing it.
Have you tried to book a room for the solar eclipse, only to find that reservations are running $600 per night? Maybe all of the hotels in the city are…
Paper on how vertical wind shear impacts surface winds in hurricanes released online in Monthly Weather Review
Summary: Scatterometers are instruments on aircraft or satellites that are used to measure wind speed and direction at the ocean surface. In this follow-up to a 2016 study, the surface…
TROPICAL STORM WARNING ISSUED FOR PORTIONS OF THE SOUTHERN WINDWARD ISLANDS
BULLETIN Potential Tropical Cyclone Two Intermediate Advisory Number 1A NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL022017 800 PM AST Sun Jun 18 2017 ...TROPICAL STORM WARNING ISSUED FOR PORTIONS OF…
[June 18] 92L a Threat to the SE Caribbean; 93L to Bring Widespread Heavy Rain to North Gulf Coast
Tropical Expert Levi Cowan is a masters student in tropical meteorology at Florida State University.He is Watching Disturbed Weather in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico Next Week. You will…
Tropical Expert Levi Cowan is watching Disturbed Weather in the Gulf Next Week
Tropical Expert Levi Cowan is a masters student in tropical meteorology at Florida State University.He is Watching Disturbed Weather in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico Next Week. You will…
Tropical Atlantic may spring to life over the next 7 days
Waters around southeastern Mexico and over the south-central Atlantic have the potential to yield the next tropical systems of the 2017 hurricane season. June 1 marked the beginning of the…
7 Best Hurricane Tracker Apps for Smartphones
When you or a loved one are potentially in the path of a hurricane, having a hurricane tracker handy to keep on top of the storm’s location and strength as…
Social Media: A New Horizon for Forecasting
Social Media: A New Horizon for Forecasting Like many meteorologists and weather enthusiasts who are reading this article, I have been fascinated with the weather for as long as I…
Window of development opportunity coming up?
It’s still early June and typically this time of the hurricane season means that things are usually quiet. Every once in a while we will get a June tropical storm…
Gulf of Mexico Tropical Moisture Brings Heavy Rain Threat to the South, Including Drought-Suffering Florida
Tropical moisture surging north from the Gulf of Mexico will continue to result in heavy downpours across parts of the South, Gulf Coast and into drought-stricken Florida early this week.…
