Ida Peters Out

Ida popped up early this morning as a hurricane with 75 mph winds only to have petered out to barely a Tropical Storm just twelve hours later. This is good news for the US as we have been very lucky, although very dry, this hurricane season.

TS FRED

The sixth named storm of the 2009 Atlantic Hurricane season formed 245 miles SSW of the southernmost Cape Verde Islands. Tropical Storm [TS] FRED at 11:00 was moving West at 15 MPH with windspeeds of 40 MPH with gusts.

TS ERIKA Forms in the Atlantic

AT 5 PM...2100 UTC...THE GOVERNMENT OF THE NETHERLANDS ANTILLES HAS ISSUED A TROPICAL STORM WATCH FOR THE ISLAND OF ST. MAARTEN.

AT 5 PM...THE GOVERNMENT OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA HAS ISSUED A TROPICAL STORM WATCH FOR THE ISLANDS OF ANTIGUA...BARBUDA...ST. KITTS...NEVIS...AND ANGUILLA.

AT 5 PM...THE GOVERNMENT OF FRANCE HAS ISSUED A TROPICAL STORM WATCH FOR THE ISLANDS OF ST. MARTIN AND ST. BARTHELEMY.

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TS Danny is 4th named storm of the season.

At 1100 am EDT... 1500 UTC... the center of Tropical Storm Danny was located near latitude 24.9 north ... longitude 70.3 west or about 445 miles... 715 km... east of Nassau and about 775 miles... 1250 km... south-southeast of Cape Hatteras North Carolina.

Danny is moving toward the west-northwest near 18 mph...30 km/hr. A general northwestward motion with a decrease in forward speed is expected today and Thursday...with a turn toward the north-northwest expected on Friday.

Maximum sustained winds are near 45 mph ...75 km/hr... with higher gusts. Slow strengthening is possible during the next couple of days.

Tropical storm force winds extend outward up to 140 miles ...220 km mainly to the north of the center.

The minimum central pressure estimated from NOAA hurricane hunter aircraft data is 1009 mb...29.80 inches.

Danny is expected to cause storm total rainfall of 2 to 3 inches... with maximum amounts of 4 inches...over the central and northwestern Bahamas. Storm total rainfall of 1 to 2 inches are expected over the southeastern Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands.

See top of blog page and side bar for regular updates.

Current Atlantic Tropical Map

ANA, BILL & CLAUDETTE

Claudette is currently projected to hit the Florida Panhandle within the next 12 hours.

Tropical Report

Ana & Bill

There was a crooked man ...

And then of course, we could say There was a crooked storm ... when talking about TS Fay. It looks like TS Hanna is going to be somewhat like that.

A 90 degree turn in the cone!

Oh Dear!!!

Hurricane Gustav and TD 8

This picture scares me!

Hurricane Gustav in the gulf and TD 8 (if named, will be Hanna) in the Atlantic, affecting the US at the same time.

Batten Down the Hatches, New Orleans!

The NHC has New Orleans in their newly updated cone for Hurricane/TS Gustav, currently over land in Haiti with 70mph sustained winds.

Hurricane Gustav Update

Hurricane Gustav is a Category 1 hurricane with wind speeds sustained at 90 mph. While the East Coast of South Florida (SoFL) is currently out of the cone, the eastern edge of the cone scrapes the western SoFL coastline and the lower Keys, including Marathon and Key West, are well inside.

Once inside the Gulf of Mexico, I guess it is, for now, a mystery. I personally have a bad feeling about this storm!

The NHC is also keeping a watchful eye on three other storms; one has low (less than 20%) chance of forming a Tropical Depression (TD); the other two have a medium (20-50%) chance of forming a TD.

TS Gustav

Well.. #7 is now Gustav. 60mph sustained winds. WNW 15 mph.

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Yep.. it is Hurricane Season

As we enter the historically observed height of the Hurricane Season, we are now watching Tropical Depression (TD) #7.


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Ain't life grand?

Future Storms?

Looks like the National Hurricane Center is keeping a watchful eye on two systems (see map on right).

1. A TROPICAL WAVE OVER THE WINDWARD ISLANDS IS PRODUCING A LARGE BUT DISORGANIZED AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...AND SURFACE OBSERVATIONS SUGGEST THAT A BROAD SURFACE CIRCULATION COULD BE FORMING. ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS APPEAR CONDUCIVE FOR SOME SLOW DEVELOPMENT OF THIS SYSTEM DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS AS IT MOVES GENERALLY WESTWARD AT 10 TO 15 MPH OVER THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN SEA. THIS WAVE WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE SQUALLY WEATHER OVER PORTIONS OF THE WINDWARD AND SOUTHERN LEEWARD ISLANDS TONIGHT AND SUNDAY.

2. SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY ASSOCIATED WITH A TROPICAL WAVE LOCATED ABOUT 800 MILES EAST-NORTHEAST OF THE LEEWARD ISLANDS HAS DECREASED THIS EVENING. UPPER-LEVEL WINDS ARE FORECAST TO GRADUALLY BECOME LESS CONDUCIVE...BUT SOME SLOW DEVELOPMENT OF THIS DISTURBANCE IS STILL POSSIBLE DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS AS IT MOVES WEST-NORTHWESTWARD OR NORTHWESTWARD AT ABOUT 15 MPH.

I'm just going to keep the shutters on the rear of the house closed except on the dining room side of the house so I can keep lookout over my car.