The focus is on tropical weather and the impacts of tropical systems.
Ernesto continues to move northeast very quickly and will begin a transformation from tropical storm to an extratropical the next 24 hours. On the track that Ernesto is going, the storm will hit Ireland and the U.K. Saturday into Sunday. Despite the transformation, Ernesto will still pack a punch when it hits. Winds will be gusting […]
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Major Hurricane Hector is currently southeast of the Big Island in Hawaii and is expected to pass about 145 miles south of the Big Island on Wednesday. At the distance, Hector will only produce large waves across the Island and have little impacts in regards to wind and rain. Hector developed on […]
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7:30 pm Update July 25, 2018 The low center is of up Ocean City, MD as the time and appears to be mainly a mid-level center. The low will track north toward Long Island, coming through after Midnight. Time is running out for development so winds may stay under 40 mph in gust. Heavy rain […]
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While the tropics will not be active with any storms, the tropics will have a major impact on the eastern part of the country over the next two weeks. A direct flow of tropical moisture will stream into the East this week, take a break next weekend then start all over again next week. The […]
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All the models have changed the track of the Zipper Low taking it up along the coast or just inside the coast. I am still thinking the system will stay off the coast and try to seek the warmer ocean waters to develop, which is what usually happens. I do understand that the models trying […]
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The NAM models are showing a scenario that would bring high winds, over-wash and heavy rains into the Mid-Atlantic Beaches and flooding rains back into the I-95 Corridor. I am showing these graphics because the mesoscale models in theory should do better than the global models because of how small our Zipper Low as I […]
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These hybrid type systems tend to be tricky in regards to the weather they produce. As mentioned this week in previous blogs, I am calling this a “Zipper Low” only because it will zip up the coast from North Carolina to New England Saturday. The impacts will be felt from New Jersey into New England […]
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Chris will head out to the Northeast and impact Newfoundland Thursday night into Friday morning. While Chris will become a hurricane for a time, it will be downgraded to a tropical storm when passing through Newfoundland. St. Johns will have winds gusts to 50 mph (80 kph) and heavy rains during the passage of Chris. […]
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We should see Chris develop off the Southeast coast this weekend. Based off the latest Recon reports, we are getting close to a tropical storm. Now most of the modeling has the system stalling off the Southeast coast through the weekend then heading out to sea very quickly, impacting Atlantic Canada by Thursday. If that […]
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