First Eastern Pacific Tropical Depression To Open Season Seen By NASA
NASA The Hurricane Season of the Eastern Pacific Ocean officially begins today, May 15 and the first tropical depression of the season formed. Tropical Depression One-E was seen by NASA’s Aqua satellite while it was developing. The first...
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The first tropical storm of the Eastern Pacific hurricane season was short-lived. Satellite imagery revealed that Tropical Storm Alvin became a remnant low pressure area 36 hours after it was named. NASA's GOES Project created an image of Alvin's remnants using infrared data from NOAA's GOES-15 satellite on May 17 at 1200 UTC (8 a.m. EDT). NASA's GOES Project is located at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Alvin became a named tropical storm on May 15 at 5 p.m. EDT and...
Weather Expert Offers 2013 Hurricane Season Forecast During SBA/Agility Webinar WASHINGTON, May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A global climate expert from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will share the 2013 Atlantic Hurricane Season forecast during a free webinar Tuesday, May 28 hosted by SBA and Agility Recovery. After the weather discussion, disaster preparedness tips will be presented by Agility. (Logo:...
Alan McStravick for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online In the last eight years alone, the US has seen seemingly low-powered storms gather strength and turn themselves into the costliest storms to ever affect our nation. This propensity for sudden storm strengthening led researchers from Florida State University to develop a new metric for the measurement of seasonal Atlantic tropical cyclone activity. This new measurement focuses not only on the size of the storm, but also on its...
NEW ORLEANS, April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- THIS MESSAGE IS PROVIDED BY THE HURRICANE KATRINA-TRAVELERS SETTLEMENT. IF YOU OWNED PROPERTY IN LOUISIANA THAT WAS DAMAGED BY HURRICANE KATRINA OR RITA, AND HAD TRAVELERS INSURANCE, YOUR RIGHTS ARE AFFECTED BY A SETTLEMENT. THE LAWSUIT CLAIMS THAT TRAVELERS POLICYHOLDERS RECEIVED FEWER BENEFITS THAN THEY WERE ENTITLED TO. TRAVELERS DENIES THE CLAIM, BUT AGREED TO A SETTLEMENT. IF YOU RECEIVED A NOTICE IN THE MAIL ABOUT THE SETTLEMENT,...
Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Massive hurricanes like Sandy, Isaac and Katrina may cost the United States billions of dollars and thousands of lives, but apparently they don’t deter people from living near these storms’ hardest hit areas. According to a new report from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in conjunction with the US Census Bureau, Americans are flocking to the ocean in record numbers with almost 40 percent of the US population...
National Hurricane Forecaster, Dr. William Gray, Windstorm Insurance Professionals And Contractors Address Critical Effects Of Recent Superstorms At WIND Conference, Warning Of More To Come. Orlando, FL (PRWEB) February 01, 2013 Gulf Coast homeowners and businesses eagerly await reports as professionals related to the windstorm insurance industry and storm damage restoration assemble from across the world in Orlando, Florida this week for WIND's Annual Conference. In the wake of...
Peter Suciu for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online October’s Hurricane Sandy is at present the second-costliest Atlantic storm behind 2005’s Hurricane Katrina. The storm, which developed as a tropical wave in the western Caribbean Sea on October 22 moved ashore near Atlantic City, New Jersey on October 27. Beyond the estimated $65.6 billion in damage and the 253 people that lost their lives across seven countries, Sandy was also likely responsible for a spike in Internet...
FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla., Dec. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Liberty Power, the nation's largest independent retail electric supplier, today announced it has donated $25,000 to the American Red Cross in support of the victims of Hurricane Sandy. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120712/FL38325LOGO) (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121214/FL29878) The company launched a campaign during the month of November to help provide assistance and support to those devastated by...
The tragic event of Hurricane Sandy shows the importance of choosing the best home construction materials available. High quality homes constructed of structural steel insulated panels have endured tornadoes, fires and hurricanes with substantially stronger winds than Hurricane Sandy such as Hurricane Katrina. Wauconda, IL (PRWEB) December 12, 2012 Robert Tomczak, President of Hi-Tech Building Systems said "The strength and integrity of ThermaSteel has been demonstrated through years...
This landlocked Rocky Mountain town is still dealing with the super storm aftermath as National Flood Services (NFS) is the nation's leader in flood insurance processing, technology, and innovation. In response to Hurricane Sandy, NFS launches FloodTools.com -- a new website to help people better understand their flood risk. Kalispell, Montana (PRWEB) December 11, 2012 When Hurricane Sandy began making its way toward the Mid-Atlantic in late October 2012, a surge of preparation was...
Latest Atlantic hurricane season Reference Libraries
Debbie formed in the warm waters of the Southeast Gulf and slowly moved northward. Debbie got picked up by the trough which was located to the North of it for a time which allowed it to make the initial turn towards Florida. Once it got near Florida, it got stuck in between the trough and ridge that was back to the west causing the storm to stall in one place or become stationary. This occurred just of the coast of Florida which resulted in a huge disaster for the state. Now Debbie has become...
Tropical Storm Beryl, the second named storm of the Atlantic Hurricane Season 2012, began in advance of the actually start of the season. On the evening of May 25, 2012 Beryl started out as an area of Low pressure off the Southeast Coast with an estimated pressure near 1002mb. Beryl further moved southeastward towards the Florida coast near Jacksonville. Beryl also intensified into a Tropical Storm with winds near 70mph prior to making landfall. In the overnight hours of May 28 just after...
When it comes to learning about the weather it is very important to understand about the oceans. The reason for this is that ocean currents can play a major role on not only weather but also the climate of a region. The current that we are looking at is called the Loop Current. If you look at the image above you can see that it’s situated just off the west coast of Florida and extends into the Gulf of Mexico. The Loop current is a warm current and this creates a warmer surrounding in...
GULF COAST UNITED STATES The weekend of June 8-10, 2012 was one of the wettest weekends in a very long time for this region. Thunderstorms and very heavy rain started in the middle of the afternoon on Friday and continued all the way through Sunday Night. An upper level feature began to slide through Eastern Texas towards the Gulf of Mexico and this interacted with a quasi-stationary front that was situated along the Northern Gulf Coast. The two features acted together to create a very...
The Hurricane Season starts June 1 for the Atlantic Ocean, however there are times that it may get an early start like here in 2012 were we have our first storm of the season two weeks early. So when does the Atlantic Season run? June 1- November 30 is the best time period for storms to occur. You can further break these numbers down into regions of the ocean and Gulf of Mexico. For example in the early time period it is common to find storms that form near the coast of Cuba and move...
