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  • Looking ahead: Hurricane Season 2010

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    Earlier this week, Dr.’s Klotzbach and Gray of Colorado State University issued the April update to their 2010 hurricane season forecast. This forecast has been produced for 27 years and is one of the “standards” referenced in long-term tropical forecasting for the Atlantic basin. First, a review of the 2009 season (graphic courtesy NHC below).…

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  • Monday afternoon Ida update

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    As of 3pm this afternoon, Ida has weakened to a just-below-hurricane strength Tropical Storm, but is maintaining 70 mph wind in its inner core. The end is rapidly nearing for Ida though as it encounters a hostile environment and will be merging with a frontal system over the next 12-24 hours and becoming extratropical. The…

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  • Ida update

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    The latest projection from the National Hurricane Center (valid 9pm CST Sunday) is above. (Click the map for more detail.) The storm is forecast to make landfall near Pensacola, FL around dawn Tuesday morning as a minimal hurricane, though according to Dr. Jeff Master’s blog, the intensity forecast remains problematic due in large part to…

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  • Ida’s effect on Memphis metro weather

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    Hurricane Ida has become a strong category 2 storm as it enters the southern Gulf of Mexico this afternoon, packing 100 mph wind as it passes east of Cancun. Forecast tracks and strength are complicated by several factors including upper-level low pressure over the northwestern Gulf, an approaching trough that will move into the southeastern…

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  • Hurricane Ida Advisory – 3pm Sunday

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    HURRICANE IDA ADVISORY NUMBER 20NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL300 PM CST SUN NOV 08 2009 …CENTER OF IDA MOVING INTO THE SOUTHERN GULF OF MEXICO… A HURRICANE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHERN GULF COAST FROM GRAND ISLE LOUISIANA TO MEXICO BEACH FLORIDA. THIS WATCH DOES NOT INCLUDE THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS.…

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  • Tropical Storm Ida forms in the southwest Caribbean Sea

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    After a relatively quiet period in the tropics for several weeks (the last tropical system to threaten any land areas was Erika two months ago, which passed over the Leeward Islands), a newly-formed depression has quickly become Tropical Storm Ida over the southwestern Caribbean. At 3pm CST, the center of Ida is about 75 miles…

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  • Severe Weather Awareness Day; 2008 hurricane video

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    Today marks Severe Weather Awareness Day for Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi. the day is set aside to serve as a reminder to all Mid-South residents that just because the days are getting cooler, severe weather is still a possibility. In fact, the Mid-South has a “secondary severe weather season” during November and early December as…

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  • T.S. Danny and a bit of “green” irony

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    Tropical Storm Danny was named yesterday morning and is now a storm with 60 mph wind moving northwest across the western Atlantic, northeast of the Bahamas. The storm is not well-organized with the strongest wind well removed northeast of the center of the storm. Current projections indicate that interests from the Outer Banks of N.C.…

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  • Possible new tropical development

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    The National Hurricane Center is keeping a close eye on “Invest 92,” an area of development northeast of Puerto Rico that could become Tropical Storm Danny in the next couple of days. The NHC places a “high probability” of formation on this storm system: “THIS SYSTEM CONTINUES TO SHOW SOME SIGNS OF ORGANIZATION… AND UPPER-LEVEL…

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  • Is it still August?

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    What a fabulous weather weekend across the Mid-South! Canadian high pressure dominated just as predicted and brought the region a re-lapse of our near-record cool July! Highs topped in the lower 80s at best over the weekend while many places outside the city proper dropped into the 50s in the early morning hours. Can’t ask…

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  • Tornado hunting and early tropical weather

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    Since there is no weather of particular interest here in the Mid-South (how much can you say about beautiful conditions under broad high pressure?), I decided to devote some ink (or pixels) to a couple of other interesting topics in the weather world: VORTEX2 and the start of the Atlantic hurricane season. The National Hurricane…

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  • Definitely not a “dove” for those in the Caymans and central Cuba

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    Hurricane Paloma (or “dove” in Spanish, how ironic is that?) has punished the Cayman Islands overnight, passing over Cayman Brac (where the calm of the eye was noted for a few hours)and almost directly over Little Cayman, and sideswiping Grand Cayman, after intensifying in a matter of two days to a destructive Category 4 storm.…

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  • Hurricane Kyle to affect Maine

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    While the Atlantic tropical season has quieted down considerably since Ike, we now have another system churning through the western Atlantic. Kyle is moving due north between the east coast of the U.S. and Bermuda. With wind of 75 mph as of 4pm CDT, Kyle has just reached hurricane status. The current track takes the…

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  • Ike moves over Houston metro

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    Hurricane Ike makes landfall at Galveston at 2:10am CDT 9/13/08. Hurricane Ike made landfall at about 2am CDT Saturday morning at Galveston, TX with the eye moving right up Galveston Bay as a high-end Category 2 storm. Daylight is just starting to shed some light on the damage that Ike has left in his wake,…

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  • Radar and satellite of Ike prior to landfall

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    Radar image from Houston as Hurricane Ike moves ashore. Eye wall moving into Galveston. Taken at 9:08pm CDT 9/12/08. Infrared (color) satellite shot of Ike prior to landfall – 7:45pm CDT 9/12/08.

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  • Ike Update

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    Video and TV coverage from Houston/Galveston this afternoon is incredible. Storm surge is already affecting the area with 5-10′ of water. Hard to imagine there is another 5-10′ of water coming… Found a good website to watch Houston local coverage on: http://www.maroonspoon.com/wx/ike.html Also, hurricane blogger Dr. Jeff Masters at Weather Underground does an awesome job…

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  • Ike poised to wreak havoc on TX coast

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    Ike is lumbering towards the Texas coast with some very interesting features. While surface wind is holding tough at 100 mph, upper level wind, central pressure, and storm structure indicate a stronger storm than surface wind indicates. The Hurricane Center is still expecting surface wind to come around with the rest of the storm and…

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  • Ike headed for TX

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    I haven’t blogged in several days, so it’s probably time to update. My family spent the weekend at Chickasaw State Park in Henderson, TN (rural TN south of Jackson) and I haven’t experienced better early September weather in a long time! Temps were absolutely perfect following a couple of cool, wet days. Clouds hung in…

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  • September… or November??

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    It’s after 10am with cloudy skies, patchy drizzle, and temps still in the upper 60s! Not sure if it is really early September or early November! Thanks to Hanna, a cold front has stalled just to our east, so cooler air is filtering in behind the front and with plenty of moisture around, the clouds…

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  • Landfall

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    Hurricane Gustav officially made landfall at 9:30am CDT (1430 UTC), Labor Day, September 1, 2008 near Cocodrie, LA, about 70 miles southwest of New Orleans or 100 miles southeast of Lafayette, LA. Intensity of the storm at landfall was Category 2 with 110 mph wind and central pressure of 955 mb (28.20 in). Radar from…

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