Atlantic Ocean – Ingalls Weather

Atlantic Ocean, Cascades, Climate, ENSO, Fall, Forecast, History, Hurricane, Ocean, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Ocean, Research, Summer, Washington, Water, Weather, Winter

El Niño to collapse by summer, La Niña forecast fall and winter 2024-25

9 March 2024 No Comments

Strong El Niño conditions were observed over the winter of 2023-24, leading to long lasting periods of split flow in the jet stream aimed at Western North America. This is a typical El Niño pattern, where the northern split persistently aims storms at southeast Alaska and the southern branch aims at California. Despite this, Oregon […]

Atlantic Ocean, Geology, Geology 111, Research

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge

6 March 2018 No Comments

Author’s Note: This part of a weekly series on geology for a class I am taking this semester at BYU-Idaho. This week’s prompt required students to look at the anatomy of a mid-ocean ridge. Other posts from this assignment can be found under the “Geology 111” category. Throughout the summer, the Atlantic Ocean is on […]

Atlantic Ocean, Florida, History, Hurricane, Pacific Ocean, Puerto Rico, Research, Summer, Texas, Tropics, Wind Storm

How Hurricanes Get their Names

29 October 2017 No Comments

This hurricane season has proven to be an intense one, with several major hurricanes causing destruction across the Southeast and the Caribbean. The remnants of one hurricane, Ophelia, even caused damage in several western European countries. With names like Ophelia and Philippe, one might wonder how hurricanes get their names to begin with. The short […]

Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean, Flood, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Hurricane, Louisiana, Puerto Rico, Rain, Research, Summer, Texas, Tropics

No, we don’t need to add a ‘Category 6’ to the hurricane scale

8 September 2017 No Comments

Hurricanes are categorized according to the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale, which organizes tropical cyclones with winds greater than 74 mph into categories from 1 to 5. Each category comes with a description of what damage can be expected in an area that the center of the storm passes over. Occasionally, I see talk of a […]