Latest Tropical cyclone Stories
redOrbit Meteorologist Joshua Kelly Big Story Weather from June 22-24: Severe weather struck through the Northern Plains on the 23rd. However, the biggest news of the past weekend was the formation of Tropical Storm Debby and the huge impacts from storm surge, rip currents, tornadoes, heavy rain and damaging winds that it has brought to the entire state of Florida. As of this morning there have been 2 deaths related to the storm. There have also been reports of wave height in the...
redOrbit Meteorologist Joshua Kelly This morning, residents of the Southern Gulf are waking up to a tropical system that could be named Tropical Storm Debby today. The system is about 120 miles north of the Yucatan Peninsula. There is still a lot of concern for this system to start with a Northward track and then slowly drift to the west towards the LA coastline and then a strong shift west into Southern Texas for landfall later in the week. However, there is also another situation where...
NASA satellites are providing data on a broad area of low pressure in the south-central Gulf of Mexico that has a medium chance for development into a tropical depression. Infrared data from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument that flies onboard NASA's Aqua satellite is helping forecasters at the National Hurricane Center understand what's happening with the low pressure area. In an image captured on June 21 at 0729 (3:29 a.m. EDT), the center of the low pressure area...
NASA satellites monitoring the life of Chris in the Atlantic saw the tropical storm become the first hurricane of the Atlantic Ocean season on June 21, 2012. Infrared satellite imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite have revealed that the clouds around Hurricane Chris' eye have reached a cold peak early on June 21 when it was first designated a hurricane, and have since warmed. The thunderstorms that surround Chris' eye are now between -60 and -70 Celsius. Cloud top temperatures that cold...
redOrbit Meteorologist Joshua Kelly Big Story Weather from June 20: Heavy rain and scattered storms were seen from Minnesota to the Great Lakes, with places in Minnesota receiving well over 4 inches of rain. Damaging hail and wind was reported from the Panhandle of Texas all the way north into the Great Lakes region. The second major story was the heat along the East Coast and the Mid Atlantic where places around DC and Baltimore hit the upper 90’s with heat indexes well over...
redOrbit Meteorologist Joshua Kelly Big Story Weather from June 19: Severe weather was found expanding through the Northern Plains with hail and damaging winds being the biggest threat. Hail the size of 2.5 inches was found in Central Minnesota. The strongest winds of the day were found in Michigan with many reports of winds in the 70-78 mph range. Also, the third tropical storm of the Atlantic Season formed in the Northern Atlantic. At this time is not expected to impact any land....
Tropical Storm Talim was born today in the South China Sea, and NASA's TRMM satellite noticed the heaviest rainfall in the storm is occurring in the south and western quadrants of the storm. NASA's Aqua Satellite noticed that some of Talim's rainfall is reaching Vietnam. NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite captured a look at rainfall occurring in newborn Tropical Storm Talim in the South China Sea on June 18, 2012 at 0331 UTC. Areas in blue and green represent light...
redOrbit Meteorologist Joshua Kelly Big Story Weather from June 15-17: On Friday there was a tornado reported in Eastern Colorado. There were also multiple hail reports, with the largest report coming from the Miami, Florida area at an estimated 3 inches in size. The strongest wind report was estimated at 82 mph near the station of KQMG in New Mexico. As for Saturday ,the tornado count was estimated at one in Southeast Colorado northeast of Pritchett. The largest hail stones on the day...
redOrbit Meteorologist Joshua Kelly Big Story Weather from June 14: A few tornadoes were reported in Kansas and Colorado yesterday. There was significant wind damage all the way from Minnesota southwestward back into Oklahoma and Texas. A second area of strong thunderstorms developed along the Northern Gulf Coast from Florida and traveled all the way over into Louisiana. The storms in Alabama did significant damage to homes and trees. The largest hail report came from Nebraska with hail...
redOrbit Meteorologist Joshua Kelly Big Story Weather from June 6: Colorado was the hardest hit area yesterday, with hail and tornadoes being reported in the state. One report came from just outside of Denver where they actually had hail fall so hard and long that it made hail banks on the ground. Also hail was a big concern across Western North Dakota and Northeast Texas where large areas of hail and wind damage were seen. Another area of strong winds occurred near Miami Florida with...
Latest Tropical cyclone Reference Libraries
Tropical Storm Alberto was named the first tropical storm of the Atlantic 2012 Hurricane Season on May 20th at 1200PM CDT. The location of the storm at this time was just to the southeast of South Carolina. The winds were estimated at 40kts gusting to 50kts. On May 20th at 0600PM CDT Tropical Storm Alberto had winds estimated at 45kts with gust to near 55kts. At this time the storm was just to the east of Savannah Georgia and was moving towards the southwest. May 21st at 0600PM CDT...
Say it’s not so, but we could be very well on the verge of entering into an EL-Nino cycle soon. How soon? The latest forecast issued by the Climate Prediction Center has upped the chances of seeing EL-Nino this year now at 61% with the favorable time period pointing towards the 3rd quarter (July-September). What does this mean to you? Well it all depends on where you’re living as EL-Nino has a wide array of impacts that are different everywhere around the globe. Here are a few...
Coastal Upwelling- this is defined as the moving of water from the deeper oceans upwards to the surface of the ocean very commonly found along our cold ocean currents, which are found along the West Coast of the United States and off the Peru coast. Coastal Sinking- this is defined as the warm waters moving in from the east and hitting the coastline and slowly filtering down towards the deeper ocean waters very slowly. This feature is common in our warm ocean currents such as the United...
Tropical Storm Debbie on a surface chart. It is noted that just off the coast of Northern Florida a 999 surface pressure is found indicating to a meteorologist that an area of Lower pressure is arriving. In this case it’s Tropical Storm Debbie. The red lines indicate lines of equal pressure. Meteorologists label them in 4mb increments. So looking at the map it’s noted that there is a 08/04/00/96 line present in the photo highlighted with red. Another feature is that the more of these...
Onshore flow describes the movement of any weather feature moving towards the shore. The most common weather features that are affiliated with onshore flow are Hurricanes and the daily sea breeze. What happens with a hurricane is the Northeast side of the storm will produce winds out of the Southeast to South which will force the ocean water (Storm Surge) towards the coast along with all the extensive precipitation shields. Another feature is known as the Sea breeze. The sea breeze happens...
