As I mentioned a couple days ago, what used to be Hurricane Ophelia would likely hit Ireland as an post-tropical system. That happened today, with the storm at tropical storm…
Category: hurricanes
Claim: warmer oceans will boost hurricane losses 70%
From the UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT and the “data to date says otherwise, so why trust a model” department (see after the article) Warming seas could lead to 70 percent increase in…
Claim: general public can't read hurricane forecast tracks
From the “another failure of public education” department and the UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: Interpreting hurricane forecast displays can be difficult for general public Utah study finds the two commonly used methods…
Enough is Enough! Stop hyping Harvey and Irma!
Dr. Neil Frank, former Director National Hurricane Center Over the past several weeks numerous articles suggest Harvey and Irma were the result of global warming. The concept is a…
Irma illusions – and realities
If human emissions made Irma worse, did they also bring the 12-year lull in Cat 4-5 hurricanes? Paul Driessen Hurricanes Harvey and Irma brought out the best in us. Millions…
What you need to know and are not told about hurricanes
By Larry Kummer. From the Fabius Maximus website Summary: Millions of words were expended reporting about Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, but too little about the science connecting them to climate…
Hurricane Expert Maue: '#Irma may bomb to Cat 5' again
Yikes. Half of Florida is covered by clouds from Irma already. As predicted, Irma is intensifying in the warm waters north of Cuba. Dr. Maue has been very accurate though…
Hurricane expert Maue on #Irma: 'entire FL peninsula potentially hurricane force winds'
And it keeps getting worse. Earlier we said the “worst case scenario” was likely to happen, now that includes a delayed turn keeping Irma over the warm waters of the…
#IrmaHurricane2017 The Worst Case Scenario for Florida is about to become reality
This is one of those posts I wish I didn’t have to make. Dr. Ryan Maue, hurricane expert and friend of WUWT has advised us that the worst case scenario…
Spectacular views from INSIDE the eye of #IrmaHurricane2017 from the Hurricane Hunter aircraft
From the Hurricane Hunters: View from inside the eye of #Irma on WP-3D Orion #NOAA42. #NOAA49 and #NOAA42 are prepping now for another series of flights into the storm.
Monster Hurricane #Irma – sat measurements show it larger than the state of Florida is long
From this imagery earlier, it certainly looks like it. It is certainly wider than the Florida Peninsula, and it’s diameter looks to be as large as Florida is long. From…
Beauty and the Beasts – Hurricanes #Katia #Irma and #Jose in one spectacular image
It is not often that you get to see two Atlantic and one Gulf of Mexico hurricanes all at once on a single satellite image, but we live in “interesting…
Hurricane Irma Is NOT the Most Powerful Atlantic Hurricane Ever Recorded.
Guest post by David Middleton Hurricane Irma is really bad. It may be the worst storm to hit the U.S. since 1935… But it is NOT the most powerful Atlantic…
Texas A&M Expert: Rainfall From Harvey Shattered Every Record
By Keith Randall, Texas A&M Marketing and Communications Hurricane Harvey was billed as a once-in-every-500-year event, and it more than lived up to its billing. It produced rainfall amounts that…
"Houston is open for business"
Guest post by David Middleton A week ago, this seemed unimaginable… Houston is open for business After much communication with those affected by Hurricane Harvey plus research, discussion, and intense…
International Space Station gets dramatic view of hurricane #Irma
The International Space Station’s external cameras captured another dramatic view of Hurricane Irma as it made landfall in the Caribbean Sept. 6. The powerful Category 5 storm with sustained winds…
Founder of The Weather Channel to people staying in Florida: "put your ssn on your arm with a sharpie"
My friend John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel, has never been known for mincing words. He’s always been a “tell it like it is” kind of guy. This is…
The most fantastic eyewall video of a hurricane I've ever seen – #Irma
This was taken earlier today by the new GOES-16 weather satellite, which has been producing some fantastic hi-res imagery of Hurricane Irma, This video, from NASA’s Short-term Prediction Research and…
Hurricane expert: '#Irma should reach 200 mph winds'
Hurricane expert Dr. Ryan Maue says today: Eye continues to warm now +20°C … if convection flares or clouds cool (more pink) then Hurricane #Irma should reach 200 mph. 190…
Hurricane expert Maue: extrapolating scale, #Irma could be a "Category 6"
Dr. Ryan Maue said this morning: Hurricane #Irma is still intensifying. Now up to 155-knots (180 mph) Extrapolating Saffir-Simpson scale, 158-knots would be Category 6. NWS says: (bold mine) Hurricane…
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