I just got done watching about 30 minutes of the special “Hurricane Irene Information” Channel 259 on DirecTV where they are carrying live reports from ABC7 out of New York…
Category: hurricanes
Hurricane Fatalities, 1900–2010: Context in these Stormy Times
Guest post by Indur M. Goklany Despite the press given to hurricanes on the dangers they pose to life and limb, in the larger scheme of things, their contribution to…
Hurricane Irene not packing much of a "punch" so far
One of the great things about Internet, technology, and personal weather stations today is that I can sit comfortably in my home in California and watch the storm progress on…
NOAA Hurricane Image: Irene almost one-third the size of US east coast
From the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center NOAA satellites Hurricane Irene almost one-third the size of US east coast Hurricane Irene is a major hurricane, and NOAA/NASA satellite data shows its diameter…
Hurricane Irene Time Lapse Movie
48 hours of imagery from the GOES 13 satellite in one movie sequence. Shows development and strengthening over the path. The animation includes sped up infrared and visible frames of…
Why I don't subscribe to Scientific American any more
It is because of beyond stupid fear mongering like this: Are Category 6 Hurricanes coming soon? Really? Lest people think this is some sort of “new” fear, I’ll remind them…
Imaging Hurricane Irene
From the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center TRMM gets a look at Irene, the first hurricane of the Atlantic season The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite has been busy measuring rainfall…
Ryan Maue's paper in GRL in AGU's weekly highlight
We’ve known this for quite some time, but I wanted to offer my congratulations to Dr. Maue. I’m thankful that you are a WUWT contributor. – Anthony AGU journal highlights…
Four Possibilities for the Next Atlantic Tropical Storm
TRMM Satellite Sees Four Possibilities for the Next Atlantic Tropical Storm On Friday, August 12th, there were no named tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic Ocean. However, the National Hurricane…
U.S. East Coast is the next wild weather target
By Joseph D’Aleo, CCM, AMS Fellow, Weatherbell co-chief Meteorologist This is August and the east coast season peaks in September with activity in October. August systems often provide just a…
Dora almost explores Category 5 – in the Eastern Pacific
Update: 4AM 7/22/2011: Hurricane Dora nearly made it to Category 5 peaking at 135 knots maximum sustained winds. Perhaps in the post-season reanalysis, the storm will be upgraded. But, what’s…
Global hurricane activity at historical record lows: new paper
During the past 6-years since Hurricane Katrina, global tropical cyclone frequency and energy have decreased dramatically, and are currently at near-historical record lows. According to a new peer-reviewed research paper…
Tropical Storm Beatriz – the six hour "shorty"
50 years ago, we’d never have counted this as a tropical storm. As outlined recently in New peer reviewed study: Surge in North Atlantic hurricanes due to better detectors, not…
New peer reviewed study: Surge in North Atlantic hurricanes due to better detectors, not climate change
Told ya so, here From the American Geophysical Union weekly Journal Highlights: A spate of research has indicated there may be a link between climate change and the prevalence of…
Klotzbach and Gray continue to expect a well above-average hurricane season
The last (and my favorite) of the major hurricane seasonal forecasts came out yesterday. Phil Klotzbach and Bill Gray from Colorado State are sticking with their April forecast. Rather anti-climactic,…
NOAA hurricane outlook indicates an above-normal Atlantic season
Looks pretty much the same as Mann’s hurricane season predictions The Atlantic basin is expected to see an above-normal hurricane season this year, according to the seasonal outlook issued by NOAA’s…
Mann's hurricane season predictions
Hockey team science wonk Dr. Michael Mann has released his hurricane predictions, just in time to pre-empt NOAA’s planned release of their forecast ,Thursday, May 19, 2011 – 11:30 a.m.…
The approach of Cyclone Yasi as told by the data
In our previous post, we highlighted the BoM weather station on Willis Island, and wondered what would happen to it and to the staff who worked there. Fortunately the staff…
Australia braces for Cyclone Yasi as it hits Category 5
UPDATE: Live The last radar image from Willis Island added below. The last radar image is truly striking. Also, see below for the differences between the Australia hurricane scale and…
Snowzilla and the Yeti Yasi
We have Snowzilla in the USA… …and Yasi in Oz. Crikey! Look at the size of this thing a day ago: Jo Nova has a size comparison for the present.…
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