Overnight a new tropical depression got its act together, pulled in tighter and became our next hurricane, Katia. The storm is still way out in the Atlantic, but it’s moving very fast and predicted to become a major hurricane by Sunday, as seen on the 5-day probability cone: Compare this to the 5-day cone from […]
This time of the year one of my daily reads is the National Hurricane Center’s website. It’s just part of being a weather junky. Today I was presented with this: That’s a tropical depression forming way out in the Atlantic and has a 60% chance of developing into a Cyclone over the next 48 hours. […]
Hannah has been downgraded to a tropical storm as it hits the Bahamas, but is expected to regain hurricane strength once it gets back over open water. Behind Hannah is Ike, still a tropical storm, but expected to gain strength over the next couple of days. As if that isn’t enough, we now have Tropical […]
That’s the latest from the National Hurricane Center. The yellow area is a tropical wave that appeared tonight and has less than a 20% probability of becoming a tropical storm. The red area is a storm that has a greater than 50% probability of becoming a tropical depression either tonight or tomorrow. On top of […]