Weather reports on whatever I decide to report on.
On Saturday, the National Hurricane Center started issuing advisories on a new tropical depression that formed to the east of Florida. Early Sunday morning it was upgraded to a tropical storm, earning the name Arthur and becoming the first named storm of the season. It is headed to the north and is expected to brush […]
While the tropics on this side of the world are pretty subdued, one tropical system caught my eye. Cyclone Hola. Yes, I admit, this cyclone mostly caught my eye because of it’s name. That said, it’s a good one. In this region of the world, they don’t use the same storm rating we do here […]
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 […]
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 […]