Karen, possibly a hurricane for something like three hours, maybe.
My latest "Storm Pundit" post just went up--it's about Tropical Storm Karen, which was probably a hurricane yesterday for a very brief period and may be officially named one in post-season reanalysis (assuming the now-highly sheared storm doesn't make any kind of comeback). I point out that if Karen hadn't been in the Atlantic, I doubt we'd be able to look forward to this type of highly detailed reanalysis...and that's one of the key problem with hurricane datasets from around the world.
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[The rapidly intensifying Hurricane Lorenzo makes landfall.]
I've done my latest Daily Green "Storm Pundit" post, about how this hurricane season is in some ways a lion, in others a lamb. Excerpt:
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