Gone for a few

Thu, 9 Jul 2009 06:32:00 GMT

Something has come up and I will be gone for at least a few days. Fortunately there is nothing in the tropics to worry about right now. Stay safe all!
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TS Blanca in the east Pacific; Possible trouble off the SE US coast

Mon, 6 Jul 2009 16:06:00 GMT

Tropical Tidbit from 12:00pm EDT Monday, July 6th, 2009:Turn up the volume and click HD if quality is too low:We finally have a named storm in the world: TS Blanca in the eastern Pacific. This was former Invest 94-E, and should have been classified as a depression early yesterday afternoon, and I have no clue why the TPC didn't, but oh well. They waited too long and Blanca burned 'em. She skipped TD status all together and is now a 40kt TS officially but looks more ...
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Tropical Tidbit Topic: El Nino ---Tropics still quiet

Sat, 4 Jul 2009 16:31:00 GMT

Yesterday I wrote about the effects that El Nino usually has on the Atlantic hurricane season. There have been a lot of questions about it this year, and I decided to make a video explaining El Nino's formation, and how it affects the weather pattern in a way that suppresses hurricane activity in our part of the world. There are many other factors but the ENSO is one of the big ones so it is worth understanding. I had to fit this all into 15 minutes and I had so muc...
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Tropical Tidbit Topic: 2009 Analog Years -- tropics still quiet for now

Fri, 3 Jul 2009 16:05:00 GMT

Tropical Tidbit from 12:00pm EDT Friday, July 3rd, 2009:There are no areas of imminent threat to develop through the end of this week.However, there is one item of interest which the NHC has mentioned in its tropical outlook. A non-tropical area of low pressure in the NE Atlantic WSW of the Azores has become non-frontal, and has the potential to try to become a sub-tropical system. This low is embedded in the base of an upper shortwave trough that has become cut-off...
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Tropics quiet to start July

Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:58:00 GMT

Tropical Tidbit from 12:00pm EDT Wednesday, July 1, 2009:Read More