Check out Jeff Masters, especially this entry here, where he explains why we are not going to see any early season storms this year (too much wind shear). I'm adding him to the blogroll.
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I wake up this morning, rub the grog out of my eyes, and find that this storm is still stronger and better organized. The winds are up to nearly 65 mph, the pressure down to 1001 mb. You can even see what looks kinda like the beginning of an eye in the satellite imagery. In short, just a little…
As if to announce today's June 1 date, Tropical Storm Barry just formed--unexpectedly--in the Gulf, and may now be intensifying over the infamous warm Loop Current. Neither Jeff Masters nor the official forecasters think Barry is going to become a hurricane before reaching Florida, however. The…
I didn't realize I was going to have the cover story of the latest New Scientist with this in-depth article I did about the climate-tornado relationship. Essentially, the bottom line is this--it's even more complicated than the climate-hurricane relationship. And so for all those politicians,…
Yesterday Jeff Masters had some amusing comments about previous tropical cyclones that have been named Chris:
There were storms named Chris in 1982, 1988, 1994, and 2000. Each time, Chris has been an insignificant storm that either never made it to hurricane strength, or in one case, barely made it…
Excellent addition. Take a look at his description of flying into Hugo (I think it was??). Scared the pants off me.
Some of the commenters are a bit, erm, out there, especially a few that show up when the tropics heat up. I live in a horribly vulnerable area of West Central Florida (about half a mile from the Gulf), and I hung on that blog like a leech when all the storm craziness was going on last year. I'll be back this year too. I'd already seen his blog entry and learned there's a little extra time to finish preparations.