NOAA touts hurricane season forecast success

Via NOAA press release: Atlantic hurricane season stays quiet as predicted Improved model, new surge forecast products and research projects debuted The Atlantic hurricane season will officially end November 30,…

Major Hurricane Gonzalo Gives an "Eye-opening" Performance

NASA and NOAA satellites have been providing continuous coverage of Hurricane Gonzalo as it moves toward Bermuda. NASA’s Terra satellite saw thunderstorms wrapped tightly around the center with large bands…

2014 Hurricane season a bust so far – no named storms at peak of season, last time was 1992

So far, four storms have gotten names in the Atlantic this year. In records going back to 1851, Sept. 10 is the day when the odds are greatest there will be at…

Bastardi: warm water brings potential for East Pacific hurricanes

Joe Bastardi writes: Joe D’Aleo and I have noted that one of the analogs showing up is 1976 with the type of ENSO coming on. In fact, with Tom Downs…

Hurricane Development Region Sea Surface Temperature Update – August 2014

The peak of the Atlantic Hurricane season is rapidly approaching.  See the NOAA Hurricane Climatology  graph to the right.  (Give it a click for a full-sized version.) Hurricane frequency tends…

Recent Hawaiian Tropical Cyclones – Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies of the Storm Tracks

It never fails. Hurricanes and tropical cyclones always bring out the manmade global warming alarmists, with their claims of unusually warm sea surface temperatures along the storm tracks. Of course…

Hurricane Iselle disintegrates before landfall in Hawaii

Cool air and cool land mass on Island Of Hawaii sucks the heat energy out of Iselle. Story submitted by reader “upcountrywater” who lives in Hawaii. I live on Maui…

Latest on the hurricane double threat to Hawaii

The current forecast storm track from CPHC shows Iselle being a Cat 1 storm when in makes landfall on the big Island. The city of Hilo will bear the brunt…

Interesting sat view: A train of 5 tropical cyclones in the Central and Eastern Pacific

From NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and “Earth’s thermostat” A train of developing tropical low pressure areas stretch from the Eastern Pacific Ocean into the Central Pacific and they were captured…

'get a vasectomy to save the planet' guy calls for a Hurricane to hit the Caribbean

I was going to make this a “Friday Funny”, but there’s really nothing funny about it. Really, you can’t make this up. Eric Holthaus, the guy who said he’d get…

Tropical Storm Bertha forms

Latest bulletin, tracking map at right, click to enlarge. BULLETIN TROPICAL STORM BERTHA ADVISORY NUMBER  1 NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 1100 PM AST THU JUL 31 2014 …TROPICAL…

Australian Tropical Cyclone activity said to be at the lowest level in modern history

Jonathan Nott, James Cook University gave this presentation at the: Distinguished Lecture, 31 July, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) 11th Annual Meeting 2014, Sapporo, Japan. Applying the Palaeo-tropical Cyclone Record…

NASA satellites see Neoguri grow into a super typhoon

From July 4 to July 7 Tropical Cyclone Neoguri strengthened from a tropical storm into a supertyphoon. NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites passed over the rapidly intensifying storm and provided…

A comment on Hurricane Arthur by Joe Bastardi

I was corresponding quite a bit with Anthony after he let me share my weatherbell.com post on WUWT. (See: Bastardi: ‘potential nightmare.. a tropical cyclone coming at the outer banks…

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New imagery of Arthur

International Space Station Captures Image of Arthur Looking out the window of the International Space Station, astronauts spotted a sprawling mass of clouds. The clouds were just beginning to take…

Latest projection shows Hurricane Arthur battering the Outer Banks on the Fourth of July

WeatherBell’s Joe Bastardi writes in with an update. Arthur is predicted to reach hurricane strength and have strong winds. The Fourth of July for the outer banks looks dire. Storm…

Tropical Storm Arthur – There Is Nothing Unusual About the Sea Surface Temperatures Off the East Coast of the U.S.

UPDATE (July 2, 2014): See the correction at the end of the post. # # # This post was prepared in anticipation of the usual nonsense we hear whenever a…

Latest image of Tropical Storm Arthur shows it getting organized

As we mentioned yesterday, Tropical Storm Arthur is likely to become hurricane Arthur and threaten the Outer Banks of North Carolina on the Fourth of July, one of the busiest…

Bastardi: 'potential nightmare.. a tropical cyclone coming at the outer banks on the July 4 weekend'

UPDATE: Latest GFDL model output suggests Bastardi could be right, see below. UPDATE2: New information from Bastardi here shows 4th of July nightmare is shaping up to be true. The…