Saharan dust reaches Caribbean
Apparently it’s not that uncommon for Saharan dust to reach the Caribbean thanks to the NE trade winds in June, but this event is likely to have been the largest for fifty years or more, and …
Tropical Cyclones
Just how busy a start has it been to the tropical cyclone season in the North Atlantic?
There has been a lot of media hype concerning the ‘fast start’ the 2020 tropical cyclones season has apparently got off to in the North Atlantic. I spent some time in a rather tedious bit of …
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Amphan makes landfall
Cyclone Amphan made landfall on Tuesday evening south of Calcutta. The closest SYNOP report from that part of India in this plotted 12 UTC chart for today is from the city of Dum Dum in West …
Have hurricanes really grown stronger since 1979?
A group of climatologist at NOAA have concluded in a study that tropical cyclones around the world have grown stronger since the 1970s, well I suppose they have to do something with their time. As far as tropical …
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Tropical Storm Arthur just scrapes in
Arthur has just scraped in as a tropical storm this morning, that’s because Air Force Reserve reconnaissance aircraft measured (estimated) a two minute mean speed of 33 to 36 knots to the southeast of it’s centre, …
2019 Hurricane predictions – how well did they do?
I was looking back at the predictions for the 2019 North Atlantic tropical cyclone season in Wikipedia the other day, and although they produced a good looking table of all the various predictions, they didn’t take …
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2019 Atlantic Tropical Cyclone season
Looking at the HURDAT2 the dataset for North Atlantic tropical cyclones since 1851 which has just been released by NOAA, there were twenty tropical cyclones in 2019, eleven of them made it to tropical cyclone and …
April SST and the 2020 hurricane season
If warmer oceans have anything to do with more frequent and more powerful hurricanes, then this years high SST anomalies might well put that hypothesis to the test. The Atlantic off the coast of Africa, is …
Belle and Sébastien
I don’t know why the Americans opted for a French name in their list of tropical cyclones this year, perhaps they have partnered up with Meteo France in another name that storm collaboration.
I don’t believe it!
Another attempt by climate scientist to find the holy grail by linking AGW to an increase in damaging hurricanes – but have they?
Typhoon Hagibis makes landfall in Japan
Plotted charts of typhoon Hagibis as it makes landfall earlier today
When someone tries to tell you hurricanes never reach the British Isles just remind them of Debbie and Faith
Can hurricanes reach the British Isles? Yes they can – check out hurricanes Debbie and Faith.
Don’t panic Captain Mainwaring – it’s not a hurricane!
Don’t forget that when Lorenzo reaches the UK – if it ever does – it won’t be a hurricane.
Whither Lorenzo
What’s left of Lorenzo makes an entrance stage left on Thursday – with echoes of hurricane Debbie in 1961
Tropical cyclones taking longer to develop into hurricanes
Did you know that tropical cyclones are taking much longer to transition into hurricanes.
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 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 …
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