Category: Storm Preparation
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TD #9 Remains Poorly Organized
System Still Expected to Drop Significant Rainfall in Cuba and Florida Nothing much has changed with Tropical Depression Nine since our last blog entry on it on Sunday. Pressure has fallen slightly, but the maximum sustained winds remain at 35 miles per hour, and the system overall remains poorly organized. The one thing that is…
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Invest 99L Becomes TD #9
Disturbance Finally Reaches Elusive Tropical Depression Strength Over the last 24 hours, things have begun to pick up with what had been a beleaguered Invest 99L. On Saturday afternoon, shower and thunderstorm activity associated with the disturbance began to blossom as it hugged the north coast of Cuba. On Sunday, a weak circulation began to…
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New Depression Forms in Western Atlantic
TD #8 Emerges on Sunday Morning; Tropical Storm Watch for Outer Banks May Be Issued on Sunday night While a lot of the focus in the Atlantic Tropics has been on Invest 99L, a couple other disturbances have spun up in the basin over the last 24 hours. One of those new features was Invest…
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Invest 99L Beginning to Show Signs of Development
Disturbance Getting Its Act Together Along North Coast of Cuba During the late afternoon and early evening on Saturday, I had indicated that Invest 99L was still struggling to rebound after the hit it took on Thursday. Upper level atmospheric dynamics were still hindering the storm as it continued to progress westward along the north…
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Invest 99L Struggling to Rebound
Upper Level Winds Continue to be Hostile Towards Development While Gaston appears to be re-energizing in the Central Atlantic, our more immediate threat, Invest 99L, continues to have difficulty recovering after losing significant punch on Thursday. Upper level conditions in the vicinity of the weak area of low pressure between Northern Cuba and Andros Island…
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Invest 99L Takes a Hit on Thursday
Disturbance Takes a Turn for the Worse; Still Expected to Bring Heavy Rains and Gusty Winds to Hispaniola, Cuba, and South Florida There was not only some good news for residents along the Gulf Coast and South Florida on Thursday, but also a lesson to all of us about trusting the computer models when it…
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Threat from Invest 99L Growing
Disturbance in Northern Leeward Has 80 Percent Chance of Forming in 5 Days While Fiona dissipated and Gaston grew into a Tropical Storm on Tuesday, concern grew on the disturbance nearing the Lesser Antilles. Invest 99L is beginning to look more and more like a threat, and models are indicating that the storm could affect…
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Tropical Threats Looming on the Horizon in Atlantic
Fiona May Be Fading, but Two Other Disturbances Still Remain As mentioned yesterday, the Tropical Atlantic is heating up as it should for this time of year. August is usually a ramp up month in terms of tropical activity as more storms and hurricanes develop during the course of the month as ocean temperatures reach…
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Atlantic Tropics Beginning to Heat Up
Fiona Followed By Invest 99L and Disturbance About to Come Off Africa Back in June, the Atlantic was off to a fast start. On top of having a hurricane in January, and a storm develop in May, there were two more in June for four named storms in the Atlantic. Meanwhile, the Eastern Pacific was…
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Lots of Wild Weather To Talk About for Sunday
Much of Garden State Under Enhanced Risk for Severe Storms; TD #3 Forms in Southern Gulf On Saturday, I had posted several articles on things going on in and around the country weather wise including a potential severe weather event for the Mid-Atlantic United States and a developing tropical disturbance in the Northwestern Caribbean. Well,…