Category: Tracking the Tropi
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Harvey Getting Stronger As It Reaches Finish Line
Storm Intensifies to Category Four Intensity with 130 MPH Winds Hurricaneville continues to track Hurricane Harvey as it continues to ramble toward landfall along the Texas Coast to the north of Corpus Christi. Within the past few minutes, the National Hurricane Center issued another update on the position and intensity of Hurricane Harvey. The scenario…
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Hurricane Harvey Continues to Close in on Texas
Pressures Continue to Fall; Storm Becomes First Major Hurricane of 2017 Hurricaneville continues to monitor conditions along the Texas coast from Brownsville to Galveston as Hurricane Harvey, the third hurricane of the 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season, continues to edge closer to the coastline in the Lone Star State, and has now strengthened into the season’s…
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Harvey Bears Down on the Texas Coast
Storm Poised to be 1st Major Hurricane to Make Landfall in U.S. Since 2005 Over the past 24 hours since my last blog post on Harvey, the storm has not only become the 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season’s third hurricane, but it has become a strong Category Two system on the Saffir-Simpson Scale, and could be…
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Invest 92L Could Develop into a Problem for Eastern Seaboard
While Harvey Threatens Texas, East Coast Needs to Monitor 92L The big story in the Atlantic Tropics is Tropical Storm Harvey, which has been rapidly deepening, and is likely to become a major hurricane prior to landfall. Harvey, which still only has winds of 65 miles per hour, but has a pressure of 982 millibars,…
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Harvey Could Become Major Threat to Texas Coast
Storm Rapidly Intensifying in the Gulf of Mexico Could we be seeing the first major hurricane to make landfall in the United States in almost 12 years? It is possible. Over the last 12 hours or so, Tropical Storm Harvey has been undergoing a great deal of changes, and now is more likely to be…
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Harvey Getting Its Act Together in the Gulf of Mexico
After Moving Through Central America and the Yucatan, Harvey Becomes a Depression Again Earlier this week, I discussed the situation with Harvey, which was undergoing struggles in the hostile environment of the Central Caribbean. A short time after that post, Harvey was downgraded to an open wave, and its remnants continued to push westward and…
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Harvey Weakens to a Depression
Eighth Named Storm of 2017 Battling Northerly Shear Is Downgraded On Thursday, Tropical Storm Harvey emerged in the Atlantic just east of the Windward Islands. Traveling a more southerly track, the storm headed toward the island of Barbados, where it brought significant flooding on Friday. Rain began on the island of Barbados as early as…
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Gert Becomes Strongest 2017 Atlantic Hurricane to Date Before Dissipating
Season’s 2nd Hurricane Peaked With 105 MPH Winds on Wednesday Over the past week, the Atlantic Tropics have picked up in earnest with the development of several storms and possibly another one in the making. One of those storms was the seventh named storm of the season, Gert, which eventually not only became the second…
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Tracking the Tropics–August 15, 2017
With the development of our first hurricane of the 2017 Atlantic Hurricane season last week (Franklin), and the emergence of a second (Gert) along with another impressive disturbance in the Eastern Atlantic, things appear to be picking up again in the Tropical Atlantic after some talk that things were not going to be as busy…
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Gert Becomes 2nd Hurricane of 2017 Atlantic Season
The Atlantic’s 7th Storm Becomes the Latest Hurricane Now that we have reached the midpoint of August, things are beginning to show signs of picking up in the Atlantic. Finally, Invest 99L got its act together over the past couple of days to not only become the season’s eighth named storm, but also the second…