As we sail towards the peak of the Atlantic Hurricane Season, the forecasters at NOAA have decreased both the chances of a bad season and the total number of expected storms. In May, there was only a 25% chance of a below normal season. As of August 9, that chance has increased to 60%. The chances of an above normal season has dropped to only 10%.
Archive for Tropic Watch 2018
Remembering Hurricane Irma 2017
Not a day goes by where somebody in Florida or the Islands of the Caribbean remembers the day Hurricane Irma paid a visit in September of 2017. In that year, all the signs of an extreme hurricane season where there. SST temperatures were at their highest, the wind shear in the Atlantic and Caribbean was low and the Bermuda high was in the perfect position for a US landfall. All the ingredients were in place.