Well the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season was subtropical storm Andrea which was named Wednesday 9th May off the Carolina coast in 24 - 25 degree celcius water. It is now a tropical depression, the only damage its doing is causing coastal erosion in Florida and helping to fan the wild fires there.
You may have guessed but I'm a hurricane, TC, typhoon junkie
Tropical Storm Barry formed on Friday in the Gulf of Mexico. He is now a tropical depression. Good thing about him is that he has provided Florida with much needed rain as they are in a drought right now.
There is finally something to keep an eye on in the Atlantic!
04L/Tropical Storm Dean is forming and the specialised models are progging an almost straight westerly track with it starting to pick up strength at around 70W, 14N in four days time.
TS Dean over 27C waters currently.
Lets not forget tropical depression 5 which is in the Gulf of Mexico. It is expected to hit the Texas/Northern Mexico area within the next 1 - 2 days. It may reach tropical storm status before landfall.
Well tropical storm Erin made landfall at Texas causing one death reported and flash flooding in Houston. Hurricane Dean is now at Cat 2 and is expected to enter the Carribean sea in the next 24 hours maybe as a cat 3 hitting some of the lesser Antilles Islands on the way. A pretty cool thing that happened was that a weather buoy is currently in the eye of dean, you can see the pressure change and wind speed here:
Yes, an interesting graph there. People in Jamaica should be concerned with this hurricane. Looks to be an outside chance it will make mainland US, with two models now taking it toward the Texas coast.
Is it possible for the wind speed to drop from a mean speed of 50 knots to 1 knot in the space of a few minutes? And why did it not ramp back up to near 50 knots again a short time after the eye passed? I'm picking that the 50 knots blew the cups off the anemometer just before the eye arrived!
Dean is now a cat 4 in the carribbean sea making his way for Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Its expected to be a cat 5 soon. They still don't know where its headed as the models keep changing their minds anywhere from Mexico to Louisiana.
Foggy wrote:The remains of TD Erin had even a bit of eye as it passed near Oklahoma City!!
Yeah they were calling TD Erin a landcane. The pictures on the news were amazing.
Hurricane Dean is still a cat 4 hurricane with max speeds of 230 km/hour. Its been going through a EWRC for about 24 hours, stopping it from going to a cat 5. You can see it on the cuban radar: http://www.met.inf.cu/asp/genesis.asp?T ... AXw01a.gif
It passed south of Jamaica, looks like its on target to go towards Mexico and Cancun.
Wow! Hurricane Felix is forecast to batter the central America nations of Honduras and Nicaragua, with maximum sustained speeds of up to 265km/h and highest gusts to 320km/h. Central pressure 929hPa. http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tr ... 00706.html
That's strange, the storm history for Hurricane Felix now shows the central lowest pressure has risen from 929hPa last night to 950hPa this morning (21hPa rise!), and has been downgraded to a category 4 as the maximum sustained winds have lowered from 165mph to 145mph.
Yet it is still forecast to approach Honduras and Nicaragua as a Category 5
Just out of interest I have been keeping my eye on the Atlantic and Tropical Depression eight is looking quite good and seems to be getting organised,could be a possible big cat 5.
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