Here is an infographic of the 2020 North Atlantic tropical cyclone season. The season officially ends on the 30th of November, but who know this season started early and could finish late by throwing up an …
There’s a 30% chance according to the NHC that the fiery low that I mentioned yesterday may take on subtropical characteristics, either way it promises a windy spell for the Azores and later Madeira and the …
If you rank North Atlantic tropical cyclone by number of tropical storms and hurricanes, 2020 has now shot past 2005 as the busiest on record. The list of named storms for 2020 does have a few …
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The obvious thing that Pinaki Chakraborty has forgotten to factor into his study – in which he finds that hurricanes now take 33 rather than 17 hours to weaken when they make landfall – is that …
The next tropical cyclone has not even been named yet but the latest run of the GFS model thinks that the low 700 miles to the SE of the Bermuda’s will become Tropical Storm Epsilon in …
I thought that I would take a look at the CNN politics Facts First article regarding what Vice President of the United States Mike Pence had said about hurricanes. “With regard to hurricanes, the National Oceanic …
I have just read a recent report Tropical cyclone intensification trends during satellite era (1986–2010) that claims that the world’s tropical cyclones are intensifying more quickly. I came across it after reading a tweet by Katharine …
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Will Delta make a right turn? The 2020 North Atlantic tropical cyclone has sprung back into life after a quite spell with a couple of new tropical storms. One of these, tropical cyclone Delta has been …
Is the tropical cyclone season in the north Atlantic just taking a breather or is that it for this year? The North Atlantic tropical cyclone season in 2020 looks like it’s taking a well earned breather …
Ex-hurricane Paulette is showing signs of life again south of the Azores and is attempting to return from the dead for the third time!Other than that there are no signs of any other tropical cyclonic activity …
Ex-hurricane Teddy has made landfall in Nova Scotia close to a place called Ecum Secum. I realise that my plotted 12 UTC chart hasn’t contoured it properly even after adding a bogus observation. The NWP forecast …
On the 12th of September the ACE index in the Atlantic for 2020 was slightly below the LTA, but ten days later with the help of hurricanes Paulette and Teddy the ACE index on the 22nd …
Equinoctial galesThe implication contained in this term, which is in fairly wide popular use, that GALES are either more frequent or more severe near the EQUINOXES than at other times, is not supported by observations. In …
The medicane/cyclone which I have watching for the last couple of days has now been given the name of Ianos by somebody or other and has moved a little faster in the last 24 hours than …
High pressure in the central Atlantic looks to be deflecting what remains of hurricane Teddy towards Nova Scotia by next Wednesday.
It certainly looks like a stormy start to the weekend over mainland Greece. I’m not sure just how accurate the German ICON model is, but it deepens the medicane just off Sicily at 06 UTC this …
There are reports that a low to the southeast of Sicily in the Mediterranean sea may evolve into a ‘medicane’ as it tracks northeast towards Greece towards the weekend. At the moment there was only a …
The weather buoy 42012 just of the coast of Alabama is very close to the eye of hurricane Sally this morning. According to the NHC at 09 UTC, Sally was centred at 30.1 north and 87.7 …
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Hurricane Paulette is bearing down on Bermuda at 06 UTC (14 September 2020) this morning and is likely to make a direct hit later today with the islands before turning north. The L F Wade Airport …
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Many storms little ACE The 2020 Atlantic tropical cyclone season has been setting records ever since it started with the number of named tropical cyclones (those reaching tropical storm category with winds of 35 kts or …
Typhoon Haishen is still heading north at 18 knots this morning according to the JMA and bearing down on the island of Yakushima. Intensity noted by the JMA as ‘very strong’ (cat 3?) but certainly not …
Super Typhoon Haishen has this evening (15 UTC on Saturday) brushed close by the island of Minamidaitōjima in the Pacific Ocean. Minamidaitōjima lies 190 nautical miles ESE of Okinawa. Haishen has a minimum central pressure of …
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There is no doubt the number of tropical cyclones has increased since 1851 in the North Atlantic and all the linear trends are tilting upwards in the above graphs. I still maintain that a good deal …
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