Tropical cyclones taking longer to develop into hurricanes
Did you know that tropical cyclones are taking much longer to transition into hurricanes.
Category: Tropical Cyclones
Are Atlantic hurricanes slowing down?
A recent article by Michael Mann includes two reports that hurricanes are slowing down and stalling.
Storm Barry rainfall predictions wrong – is global heating to blame?
I wonder if Barry didn’t produce as much rain as was predicted because of poor NWP modelling or a failure in global heating to do it’s thing?
2018 Hurricane season
The updated HURDAT2 through 2018 for the Atlantic basin is now available to download. Here’s a closer look at the 2018 season. There were eight hurricanes in all but just Michael made it to category five. Hurricane Leslie lasted for twenty two days before dissipating. Four tropical cyclones made landfall in the US of which two were of hurricane strength. As you can see the British Isles was in the firing line for at least two of the tropical cyclones, in what was a slightly above average North Atlantic season. The season started really slowly and didn’t really take off...
Hurricane Michael upgraded to a Category 5 at time of U.S. landfall
Scientists at NOAA’s National Hurricane Center conducted a detailed post-storm analysis on all the data available for Hurricane Michael and have determined that the storm’s estimated intensity at landfall was 140 knots (160 mph). This final wind intensity is a 5 knot (5 mph) increase over the operational estimate and makes Michael a category 5 storm on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale at the time of landfall on October 10, 2018, near Mexico Beach and Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida. Michael is the first hurricane to make landfall in the United States as a category 5 since Hurricane Andrew in 1992, and only the fourth on...