Pine Belt Weather Blog

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Today’s update will come in two parts, this being part one, focusing on the tropical Atlantic. The season has gotten off to a slow start, but we’re only just entering…

We’re traveling the coastline destroyed by Hurricane Katrina’s record storm surge. This is something that has never been shown on the news or talked about, either in the overall, or…

The new NOAA Winter Weather Forecast 2018-2019 is here. Summer may still be in full swing, but that doesn’t mean that colder weather isn’t on the way. The meteorologists at…

Tropical Storm Chris is beginning to move northeastward this morning, away from the United States. Since Chris sat in the same spot for a couple days, the water beneath the…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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:…

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…

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 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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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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…