El Niño could dictate this year’s hurricane seasons, but it’s not a sure thing
NOAA recently released its outlooks for the 2026 hurricane seasons across the Atlantic, eastern Pacific, and central Pacific basins. The outlooks are in line with forecasts of a strengthening El Niño pattern heading into the upcoming summer and…
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Tropical Storm Bonnie Could Achieve A Rare Feat: Changing Oceans
Tropical Storm Bonnie (finally) formed in the far southern Caribbean Sea on Friday afternoon, becoming the second storm of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season. We’ve been watching this system for a while now, performing its will-it-or-won’t-it…
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The Eye Of A Powerful Typhoon Abruptly Swerved Around This Japanese Island
The eye of Typhoon Lekima made an unusual and impressive curve around Japan’s Tarama Island on Thursday evening, preventing the center of the storm from making a direct landfall on the tiny island. The unexpected wobble in the storm’s…
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Four Scientists in Path of Cat 5 Hurricane Walaka As It Approaches Johnston Atoll
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services said on Monday that four scientists are in the path of a category five hurricane threatening Johnston Atoll, an isolated atoll in the central Pacific Ocean. Walaka is one of the strongest storms we’ve seen in the…
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Hurricane Bud Expected to Rapidly Intensify Off Mexico’s West Coast This Week
The Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season woke up last week and it’s off to a formidable start. Hurricane Bud is the season’s second hurricane—and the second storm to form in the past week—and it could affect Mexico’s west coast over the…
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Major Hurricane Sandra Breaks Two More Records, Ocean Just Showing Off Now
Hurricane Sandra became a major hurricane today—as I figured it would, but who’s keeping score—packing winds of 115 MPH at the 2:00 PM MST advisory. The storm broke the record for the strongest hurricane we’ve ever seen so late in the year in…
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Late-Season Hurricane to Help Bring Snow and Ice to Central Plains Because Weather Is Awesome Like That
Tropical Storm Sandra, a stout and mighty gale blown about a low fomenting several hundred miles south of Manzanillo, Mexico, is the latest tropical storm to form in the eastern Pacific basin since Tropical Storm Winnie popped up in early December 1983.…
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Tropical Depression Attempts to Bribe Santa, Probably Not Successful
It’s satellite images like this that spawn conspiracy theories about our ability to control the weather.
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