Hurricane Dorian Quickly Organizing In The Southwestern Atlantic Ocean
Dorian strengthened into a hurricane over the U.S. Virgin Islands on Wednesday afternoon, passing into the southwestern Atlantic Ocean where it will spend the next four days in a prime environment for strengthening. The National Hurricane Center expects…
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The Tropical Atlantic Grows Active Again After An Unusually Long Midsummer Silence
It’s been an unusually quiet summer so far in the Atlantic Ocean. We didn’t see a named storm between Hurricane Barry making landfall on July 17 until weak ol’ Tropical Storm Chantal formed in the oceanic boondocks early last week. That…
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President Trump (Allegedly) Wants To Know If We Can Stop A Hurricane With Nuclear Bombs
Axios reported Sunday evening that Donald Trump, former host of The Apprentice and current President of the United States, reportedly asked Homeland Security officials on multiple occasions if we could “nuke” or simply bomb a hurricane to…
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Tropical Storm Chantal Forms Out In The Middle Of Nowhere
A disturbance in the northern Atlantic Ocean developed into Tropical Storm Chantal on Tuesday evening, becoming the third named storm of the unusually quiet-to-this-point Atlantic hurricane season. Forecasters expect the storm to remain far out in the…
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GOES-17, The Little Weather Satellite That Could, Survived Another Hiccup Last Night
The United States’ newest weather satellite survives to sense another day. GOES-17, known in service as GOES-West, suffered a 10.5-hour outage this morning after a reported software glitch caused the satellite to stop transmitting products and…
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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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A Tropical Depression Is Likely In The Atlantic By Early Next Week
We could see our third named storm of the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season by this time next week. The suspect is a tropical disturbance that’s currently about halfway between the Caribbean and Africa. The National Hurricane Center gives the system a…
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Hot Nights Will Make This Weekend’s Excessive Heat And Humidity Even More Dangerous
Parts of 19 states are under an excessive heat warning over the next couple of days as the combined effect of high heat and stifling humidity climbs to dangerous levels. The heat baking the Midwest this week will grow more intense and spread east toward…
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Life-Threatening Flooding Likely As Tropical Storm Barry Crawls Toward Louisiana
Extremely heavy rain associated with Tropical Storm Barry will lead to life-threatening flooding across southern Louisiana and the lower Mississippi River Valley over the next couple of days. The slow-moving storm could reach hurricane strength before it…
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Tropical System In Gulf Likely To Strengthen; Greatest Threat Is Flooding From Heavy Rain
A tropical disturbance entering the Gulf of Mexico has a high chance of growing into a named storm by the end of the week. Some models have the system intensifying before it makes landfall on the northern Gulf Coast this weekend. Flash flooding from…
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