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Tropical Storm Igor forms as hurricane season peaks.

Tropical Storm Igor has formed in the eastern Atlantic Ocean not far from the Cape Verde Islands. As the hurricane season enters into the statistical peak activity, we see that overall activity is fair. This has been quite an active season overall, but has spared many humans and land areas.
In addition to Igor, there are [...]

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Wed, September 8 2010 » hurricanes 2010, summer 2010, tropical storm coverage » No Comments

Success: Hurricane Earl chase/intercept a good one.

No eyewall landfall, but Hurricane Earl was fun on the Outer Banks.
The chase did not involve a ton of planning or driving. It only took about 6 hours to drive down, arriving around 6pm on Wednesday. I pretty spent the next few hours scoping out the areas from Cape Hatteras as far as the Ferry [...]

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Sat, September 4 2010 » Weather Warrior TV, hurricanes 2010, storm chasing, summer 2010, tropical storm coverage » No Comments

Preliminary chase schedule

Update (10:00am) I delayed my departure. Right now looks like the earliest I’ll be heading out is a little after noon time. Also looking to pull back on the scope/distance on my chase. I will be heading out for sure…just have to assess things as they stand and what the likelihood is for getting good [...]

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Wed, September 1 2010 » hurricanes 2010, storm chasing, summer 2010, tropical storm coverage » No Comments

Tough day today, but everything still a GO for Hurricane intercept.

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 at 10:31pm EDT
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Lots of problems today, but still on time for intercepting Hurricane Earl in N.Carolina
Today was a rough day [...]

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Tue, August 31 2010 » hurricanes 2010, storm chasing, summer 2010, tropical storm coverage » No Comments

We’re go for Hurricane Earl intercept

Monday, August 30, 2010 at 5:33pm EDT
Won’t be an eyewall/landfall hurricane intercept, but we’ll be there.
Planning is in full swing and at the moment looks like departure from Maryland will be around Mid-day Wednesday with arrival in northern North Carolina shores around 4am-ish via Richmond. Travel further south may be done if time and fuel [...]

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Mon, August 30 2010 » Weather Warrior TV, hurricanes 2010, storm chasing, summer 2010, tropical storm coverage » No Comments

Latest model runs for Hurricane Danielle & TS Earl

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 at 10:45pm EDT
Quick post for a graphic I just worked up.
I like the South Florida Water Management Department’s hurricane model plots, but they don’t combine the runs when there are two systems, so I did:

Interestingly, after what I posted earlier about US threat being minimal to almost non-existent. May have to [...]

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Wed, August 25 2010 » hurricanes 2010, summer 2009, tropical storm coverage » No Comments

Hurricane Danielle & Tropical Storm Earl & More

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 at 4:37pm EDT
Atlantic Basin is active, four total areas being watched.
Hurricane Danielle has been watched for days now, but new to the parade is Tropical Storm Earl which was just designated by the National Hurricane Center. Additionally we have an area that is coming off the coast of western Africa (and [...]

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Wed, August 25 2010 » NHC, hurricanes 2010, summer 2010, tropical storm coverage » No Comments

Another extended range local chase & Tropical Storm Colin is back.

Thursday, August 5, 2010 at 11:25pm EDT
Good Chase Today in South-Central Virginia
Today, Mark Ellinwood and myself once again ventured out to chase some Regional/local storm possibilities in the Mid-Atlantic. Today it was central and south-central Virginia. About my third time in the area and Mark’s first the chase went pretty well. We did not make [...]

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Thu, August 5 2010 » DC area weather, hurricanes 2010, lightning, severe weather coverage, storm chasing, summer 2010, tropical storm coverage » No Comments

TS Colin gone, new copyright law, new twitter goal, chase on Thursday and more

Tuesday, August 3, 2010 at 10:35pm EDT
A slew of updates and quick discussions.
First up, Tropical Storm Colin left as quickly as it came:
Early today at the 5pm National Hurricane Center update, they concluded from various data sources (buoys mostly) that Tropical Storm Colin was short lived, issuing it’s last discussion and classifying the system a [...]

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Tue, August 3 2010 » DC area weather, Jason personal, hurricanes 2010, other news stories, storm chasing, summer 2010, tropical storm coverage » No Comments

Welcome Colin to Tropical Storm Status.

This morning we now have our third named tropical system, the fourth tropical system of the season. I’ll have more later this morning, just up early to check the status. Here is a cut and past of the NHC Discussion from 5am:
TROPICAL STORM COLIN DISCUSSION NUMBER 4
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL [...]

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Tue, August 3 2010 » hurricanes 2010, summer 2010, tropical storm coverage » No Comments