Update: HORRAY: Tropical Storm Omeka was named! Dec 20, 2010 If it looks like a duck…well, if this bird were in the Atlantic, it would have been named a while…
Category: hurricanes
Global tropical cyclone activity still in the tank
Even with the expected active 2010 North Atlantic hurricane season, which accounts on average for about 1/5 of global annual hurricane output, the rest of the global tropics has been…
View the 2010 Hurricane Season in Google Earth
While we are waiting for Ryan Maue’s ACE 2010 report on the hurricane season, there’s this from the Google Earth blog: Greg at Geodesic contacted us to let us know…
Visualizing the entire 2010 Atlantic hurricane season in one image
The photo below is a stunning and novel piece of imagery and I commend NOAA’s Environmental Visualization Laboratory for this nicely done graphic. If they had done it last year,…
NOAA's End Game on the 2010 Hurricane Season
NOAA press release below, gotta love the word “onslaught” added for dramatic effect. I’m sure Ryan Maue’s end season summary of hurricane ACE (Accumulated Cyclone Energy) for the 2010 will…
2010 Typhoon Tally May Be Lowest On Record
From The Japan Times: The number of typhoons this year could turn out to be the lowest on record, which experts theorize could be a result of the El Nino…
Quote of the Week – 20/20 hindsight
Dr. Roger Pielke Jr writes in the “$82 billion prediction” post Katrina: The Sarasota Herald-Tribune has an revealing article today about the creation in 2006 of a “short-term” hurricane risk…
Study says SST convection threshold rising
From the University of Hawaii at Manoa, more of the “more heat = more hurricanes” meme. Threshold sea surface temperature for hurricanes and tropical thunderstorms is rising IMAGE: The average…
Inconvenient hurricane facts
Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. had this great set of factoids up on his blog, and I just can’t resist sharing. He writes: Adam Lea, of University College London, shares these…
What Happened to All the Hurricanes, Al?
From Pajamas Media, After Hurricane Katrina and the amazing season of 2005, we were supposed to see year after year of terrible hurricanes. Where are they? Where is all the…
Typhoon Megi and SST anomaly in East Asia
Guest Post by Nonoy Oplas, Typhoon MEGI (local name “Juan”) has crossed the Philippines’ landmass but still on the western side of the country’s area of responsibility as I write…
Super Typhoon Megi
From NASA Super Typhoon Megi Posted October 19, 2010 download large image (4 MB, JPEG)acquired October 18, 2010 download Google Earth file (3 KB, KMZ)acquired October 18, 2010 Share this…
Klotzbach and Gray: final 2010 two week hurricane forecast
First, a confession – I’m not feeling terrifically motivated to write up this forecast. As we stumble to the end of the 2010 hurricane season, there’s a lot dry air…
Atlantic Hurricanes & the Sun
Guest Post by Paul L. Vaughan, M.Sc. Does the sun tweak the odds of busy Atlantic hurricane seasons on decadal timescales? ACE = accumulated cyclone energy (based on duration, intensity,…
Global Tropical Cyclone activity is at 33-year lows
Dr. Ryan N. Maue’s 2010 Global Tropical Cyclone Activity Update Update to include Rush Limbaugh’s discussion on his radio show of this posting … With the 2010 North Atlantic hurricane…
Ocean color affects tropical cyclone formation
From the AGU: The color of the ocean can alter the frequency of tropical cyclones, according to a recent study. The absorption of sunlight is affected by the concentration of…
Nicole lasts all of 6-hours as a named tropical storm
Easy come, easy go. Nicole was upgraded from TD16 at 11 AM and dissipated as a tropical storm at 5 PM. Nicole joins Tropical Storm Chris from 2000 as the…
Klotzbach and Gray: two week hurricane forecast
We expect that the next two weeks will be characterized by above-average amounts of activity (greater than 130 percent of climatology.) So starts the latest two week forecast from Philip…
Igor cool ocean
As I’ve written before, hurricanes are natural heat engines. They transport surface heat to the upper atmosphere for dissipation to space. They do a splendid job of cooling the ocean…
Hans von Storch study: Global Warming to make fewer strong polar storms
Here is a quote you don’t often see: Our results provide a rare example of a climate change effect in which a type of extreme weather is likely to decrease,…
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