HURRICANE SEASON

As Tropical Storm Nicole nears Florida’s east coast, people in Vero Beach are preparing for its affects.

An unusual and impactful late season storm developing north of the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico – designated Invest 98L – will gradually organize over the next several days and slide westward toward Florida, bringing dangerous seas, widespread coastal flooding and beach erosion, gusty squalls, and the potential for heavy rain to a wide stretch of Florida’s Atlantic coast starting Tuesday into Wednesday.

Solar power has made headlines in the weeks following Hurricane Ian after one Florida community that’s 100 percent solar-powered never lost power throughout the storm.

The disturbance moving through the central Caribbean this morning – dubbed Invest 95L – is slowly organizing and will likely become a tropical depression in the next day or two as it heads toward Jamaica, Central America, and the Yucatán Peninsula this week.

Hurricane Roslyn continued to strengthen yesterday as expected, with Hurricane Hunter aircraft finding winds of 130 mph during their afternoon mission while the storm was located about 150 miles southwest of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

By late October, Hurricane Season is a little long in the tooth, but as we discussed in Monday’s newsletter, historically about 10 percent of tropical activity remains.

Hurricane Season is long. June through November is half the year. But it’s in October when Hurricane Season starts to gnaw at our last nerve.

Hurricane season seems to finally be kicking into a higher gear.

The center of Tropical Storm Fiona passed over Guadeloupe – part of the chain of islands flanking the northeastern Caribbean – last night, bringing heavy rains and gusty winds, at times reaching nearly 60 mph, while hurricane watches went up this morning for Puerto Rico and portions of the Dominican Republic as the storm tracked westward into the eastern Caribbean.

A tropical wave that is expected to approach the Caribbean this week could become a tropical depression in the next few days, National Hurricane Center said Tuesday.

After a busy start to September – especially after two months without any storm activity – the Atlantic is once again cooling off, with only one disturbance we’ll be following this week in the far eastern Atlantic.

Despite continued struggles against wind shear over the past 24 hours, Tropical Storm Earl appears to be gathering steam as it begins its anticipated turn northward some 100 miles north of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands this morning.

It’s looking a lot like late August out across the Atlantic today – with four areas being highlighted for potential development by the National Hurricane Center – but the broad low pressure area moving into the central Atlantic will be the main story this week.

It’s been thirty years since Hurricane Andrew made landfall, shocking South Florida with the devastation left behind.

Wednesday marks thirty years since Hurricane Andrew changed the lives of countless South Floridians.

Potential Tropical Cyclone Four over the western Gulf moved ashore shortly after sunset yesterday with little fanfare.

The disturbance over the northern Gulf spawned late last week by the leftovers of an old frontal boundary is moving inland over south Texas this morning between Brownsville along the U.S./Mexico border and Corpus Christi.

South Florida’s hot in July. Tell us something we don’t already know, especially this July, one of the warmer ones of the past 25 years.

A disturbance off the coast of Africa may organize into a tropical depression by middle week, becoming the first tropical system in the Atlantic since July 3 and kicking off what is traditionally the busiest stretch of the Atlantic hurricane season.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration updated its predictions for the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season. The result? There is still a high likelihood of an above-average season.

It’s been minute since we’ve seen any organized tropical activity in the Atlantic.

A robust tropical wave – a ripple in atmospheric winds 5,000 to 10,000 feet up triggering a large area of showers and thunderstorms – is emerging today off the coast of Africa.

The summer vacation the Atlantic’s taken for much of July has been a welcome sight, but there are signs the vacation may be coming to an end as we close out the month.

As quickly as Tropical Storm Colin spun up Friday and Saturday over South Carolina, Colin unraveled by early this morning over eastern North Carolina.

We continue to monitor two areas for potential development in the tropics this morning, but neither is a concern for South Florida at this time.

After a spate of storminess for the first half of June, the tropical Atlantic looks to be quieting down, at least for the near term. Disruptive wind shear across the preferred June formation areas of the southern Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean will keep organized activity at bay this week.

As mid-June draws near, there is a “hush” over the Atlantic basin, in part due to the presence of the Saharan Air Layer or SAL.

Seventeen years after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans, the Army Corps of Engineers has completed an extensive system of floodgates, strengthened levees and other protections.

There were 21 named storms in the Atlantic Ocean this year, including seven hurricanes.

Tropical Storm Wanda has officially died.

For the second year in a row, we’ve exhausted the list of names allocated for the Atlantic hurricane season.

The strong low-pressure system in the middle of the Atlantic has broken free of the fronts that were attached to it, so it meets the criteria to become a named system.

Hurricane season is still hanging on.

The last few years when October was so slow, an El Niño was underway.

The short answer is…maybe, but probably not.

The National Hurricane Center is giving the disturbance off the Southeast coast a decent chance of developing into a tropical depression or storm for a hot minute over the weekend.

The National Hurricane Center is making note of a broad area of disturbed weather over the southern Bahamas.

Still-powerful Hurricane Sam finally started to weaken overnight as it slipped past Bermuda about 200 miles to the east.

Hurricane Sam is a classic, super-intense hurricane. Thankfully, it will clearly turn north well away from the Caribbean islands and well east of Florida and the Bahamas. Bermuda will have to watch it as the storm approaches that island toward the end of the week.

Confidence is now high that Hurricane Sam will avoid the Caribbean islands as the storm arcs off to the north.

Tropical Storm Odette finally formed off the Mid-Atlantic coast yesterday.

Tropical Disturbance #1 is trying to consolidate in the extreme southern Gulf of Mexico. The

The weak disturbance that started in the Caribbean is over Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula and forecast to drift into the Gulf of Mexico by late today.

Hurricane Larry is on a path to be a large and very strong hurricane in the tropical Atlantic between the Caribbean islands and Africa.

How students can be prepared as hurricane season enters its peak

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell encouraged her residents to stay inside, shelter in place and hunker down.

Hurricane Ida is expected to continue strengthening as it moves across warm water in the Gulf of Mexico and toward the Gulf Coast.

The animals came from four shelters in southern Louisiana that are at risk of being damaged due to the storm, so staff members reached out to the folks at the Humane Society of Broward County for help.

Its projected path has Hurricane Ida making landfall near New Orleans Sunday night, and for that reason, residents have been busy preparing as best they can.

The ingredients are coming together for Hurricane Ida to strengthen and grow larger before it plows into southern Louisiana tomorrow – 16 years to the day after Katrina made landfall on the eastern edge of the state.

A hurricane is expected to hit the Southeast United States this weekend as Ida, which strengthened into a tropical storm on Thursday, moves over the Caribbean Sea.

After threatening to wobble west toward central Long Island, Henri has drifted slightly east.

Saturday and Saturday evening are all that left to get everybody to a safe place before dangerous weather from Henri arrives on Long Island and across southern New England overnight.

Disorganized Tropical Storm Grace is speeding west just south Puerto Rico.

The large area of disturbed weather across the tropical Atlantic just south of the Saharan dust plume has three distinct circulations embedded in it.

Officials are forecasting 15 to 21 named storms instead of the 13 to 20 it predicted in May. Hurricane season lasts through the end of November, with its peak running from mid-August to mid-October.

Officials are forecasting 15 to 21 named storms instead of the 13 to 20 it predicted in May. Hurricane season lasts through the end of November, with its peak running from mid-August to mid-October.

Satellites and the space station crew are tracking the progress of the record-breaking deadly Tropical Storm Elsa as it moves along the Florida coast.

It could affect Surfside, where the deadly condo collapsed.

The 2021 Atlantic hurricane season has officially begun, and it's expected to bring a higher-than-average number of storms in the months ahead.

Today is the start of Hurricane Season and the National Weather Service predicts an active season. South Floridians are most vulnerable

Florida's second COVID-19 hurricane season starts June 1, 2021, and emergency managers are planning how to shelter evacuees while mitigating risks.

The university reminded students of storm preparedness through an email earlier today.

With the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season upon us, now is a good time to review the list of names that will be used throughout the six-month season.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is predicting an above-average hurricane season for 2021, forecasting 13 to 20 named storms.

The 2021 hurricane season looks like it’ll be another active one, NOAA says, but not quite as bad as last year.

The 2021 hurricane season looks like it’ll be another active one, NOAA says, but not quite as bad as last year.

The 2021 hurricane season looks like it’ll be another active one, NOAA says, but not quite as bad as last year.

Its odds of developing are medium-high, at 50% in the next two days and 80% in the next five days. It is forecast to produce gale-force winds later Thursday, according to the National Hurricane Center.

The exhausting hurricane season, which saw 12 named storms make landfall in the continental U.S., ends Monday. It’s a season that saw us go deeper into the Greek alphabet than ever — nine letters deep. The next named storm, if there is one, would be Kappa.

Although hurricane season is officially June 1 to Nov. 30, there could be storms after the season concludes such as in 2005 when Tropical Storm Zeta formed Dec. 30 and lasted until Jan. 6. Tropical Storm Zeta didn’t threaten any land or lives and is classified as what forecasters call a “stat storm,” or one that just counts toward statistics. One or two more could be coming.

Already, the 2020 hurricane season is tied with 2005 for the most named storms in a year. If Eta forms as expected, this year will also tie 2005 for the most number of total storms in a season. A reanalysis of the 2005 season identified a previously unknown system that briefly became strong enough to earn a name — but it was too late to give it one.

Accordingly, the NHC is also watching an area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms in the far eastern Atlantic. The area has a near-zero chance of development in the next 48 hours and a 20% of development in the next 5 days, the hurricane center said.

This would be the record-tying fourth storm to make landfall in Louisiana this year. The state has already seen landfalls by tropical storms Cristobal and Marco and Hurricane Laura, which ravaged the southwestern region as it roared ashore as a Category 4 storm in August. More than 6,600 Laura evacuees remain in hotels around the state, mainly in New Orleans, because their homes are too heavily damaged to return.

“It is possible that we could see a Fujiwhara effect between Gamma and this new tropical feature. The Fujiwhara effect is when two tropical systems moving in such close proximity of each other that they begin to swirl around their common center. This can force either tropical system to temporarily change course,” AccuWeather said Sunday.

“We were dealing with an area of low pressure very similar to this, developed down off the coast of Honduras, and initially models had nothing, had just a weak storm coming northward and that was it,” he said. "And you know what happened to Michael. Michael was a Cat 5 and it blasted Panama City... a lot of weather systems that develop down there are very difficult to forecast in October because there’s a lot of scenarios that can play out in these kinds of situations.