WHERE HURRICANES, TORNADOES, LIGHTNING, BLIZZARDS, AND FLOODS ARE NO MATCH!
Three systems (Ana, Bill, Claudette) on the boards
August 16th, 2009 at 4:57pm EDT
New updates are due out anytime, so I’ll make this brief. We have quickly gone from a late starting season with no named storms through early/mid August, to as we speak two active systems (Tropical Storm Bill, and Tropical Storm Claudette). [...]
Sun, August 16 2009 » Hurricanes 2009, summer 2009, tropical storm coverage » No Comments
National Hurricane Center has put a high likelihood of 90L getting upgraded to tropical depression status within the next 48 hours. Typically, when a system looks this good, and is upgraded, the system reaches this tropical cyclone (TD) status well within the 48 hours, but things are always based on statistics, so 50% is [...]
Thu, August 13 2009 » Hurricanes 2009 » No Comments
Did we just get punk’d for saying this system was going to reach Tropical Storm status?
August 12th, 2009 at 4:55pm
Well, thank god I realized it might just be a rumor….because the 5pm update (see partial quote below) shows that the National Hurricane Center (NHC) did not upgrade the storm. Here is a portion of [...]
Wed, August 12 2009 » Hurricanes 2009, summer 2009 » No Comments
TD#2 to become Tropical Storm Ana at 5pm according to a few reliable sources. Full blog shortly there after, with updates on the tropical wave behind future TS Ana.
Wed, August 12 2009 » Hurricanes 2009, severe weather coverage » No Comments
Still awaiting to see if TD#2 makes tropical storm status to become Ana.
August 11th, 2009 at 6:01pm EDT
At 6am Atlantic Standard Time (no daylight time in the ocean) the National Hurricane Center upgraded invest 99L up to Tropical Depression status based on visual satellite imagery and other data they were getting early this morning.
As of [...]
Tue, August 11 2009 » Hurricanes 2009, summer 2009 » No Comments