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My 2013 Hurricane Forecast

The research team at Colorado State University uses a few more advanced  metrics than I do to come up with a seasonal tropical forecast, but many of the [..]

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“Ghost of Isaac” — Storm Rebirth?

Officially, the “ghost” has been tagged as Invest 90L by the National Hurricane Center.  Is tropical trouble brewing close to home?  In a nutshell:  “I think not”!  In [..]

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Isaac’s Track a Concern

We all should be keeping a watchful eye on Isaac through the weekend.  And even though it is at minimal tropical storm strength now, any system in the [..]

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Liquid Sunshine State

You don’t need a weatherman to tell you it has been wet around these parts recently.  Most of our yards and playgrounds look like swamps, due to days [..]

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Ernesto…in Retrospect

Any type of northern Gulf of Mexico threat from Tropical Storm Ernesto has now come and gone.  I mentioned as early as Thursday and Friday (Aug 2-3) that [..]

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Ernesto’s Destination

Essentially, the forecast models have centered upon two solutions with Ernesto: a developing East Coast trough will turn the storm northwest towards the central Gulf of Mexico developing [..]

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Tropical Depression Five Analysis

Our latest depression has formed in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, just slightly north of the equator.  We are in the “time slot” now where the Atlantic [..]

Miscellaneous, Weather

Boating in Lightning

The past few weeks in the Florida panhandle have yielded very intense summer thunderstorms.  In some cases, we are talking thousands of strikes per hour! An interesting question, [..]

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Another Early Season Tropical Cyclone?

For about 10 to 12 days now, the models have been hinting about a disturbed weather area in the Caribbean Sea and the possibility of some tropical development [..]

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Tropical Websites and Apps

Hurricane Season is almost here, and I took some time to surf the web and explore the app stores to come up with some good sites you might [..]

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