Lead Forecaster Daniel Crawley Good Thursday morning to everyone, we continue to monitor Ian as it works across Florida and up the Southeast Coastline of the United States. Ian yesterday made landfall as a strong Category Four Hurricane near Cayo Costa Florida at 3:05 pm. The Thursday 5 am update has Ian downgraded to aContinue reading “Ian To Begin Impacting The Carolinas With Rain, Gusty Winds on Friday”
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Ian To Slowly Move North Into The Southeast This Weekend, Flooding Likely To Occur
Lead Forecaster Daniel Crawley Good Tuesday morning to everyone, we continue to monitor Ian, which is now a major Hurricane crossing the Western tip of Cuba. Now that we are between 3-4 days out, it’s time to hone in on some details and how Ian could impact Western North Carolina. Here’s a look at theContinue reading “Ian To Slowly Move North Into The Southeast This Weekend, Flooding Likely To Occur”
Rapid Intensification of Tropical Storm Ian Expected Next 48 Hours, Gulf Coast and Interior Southeast Impacts Likely Next Week
Good Saturday evening to everyone across the Western Carolinas. Hope you weekend is off to a great start. We have an important blog piece about developing Tropical Storm Ian and the impacts for the Western Caribbean, Cuba and the US over the next 5-7 days. Please share this with friends or family who may beContinue reading “Rapid Intensification of Tropical Storm Ian Expected Next 48 Hours, Gulf Coast and Interior Southeast Impacts Likely Next Week”
Tropical Update: Fiona and Gaston Continues to Move North, Hermine Expected to Develop This Weekend
Lead Forecaster Daniel Crawley Good Wednesday morning to everyone, remember about a month ago when we spoke about how abnormally quiet the Atlantic Hurricane Season was to that point? Well, things have obviously changed in recent times as we are at the peak of the Hurricane Season (September-Early October). We have powerful Hurricane Fiona pullingContinue reading “Tropical Update: Fiona and Gaston Continues to Move North, Hermine Expected to Develop This Weekend”
Fiona Gradually Strengthening Near Puerto Rico, Threat to United States is Low
Lead Forecaster Daniel Crawley Good Saturday evening to everyone, hope your weekend is off to a good start. We have an update on Tropical Storm Fiona down in the Caribbean. After dealing with a good bit of wind shear two days ago, Fiona is in a more favorable atmospheric environment as there is a distinctContinue reading “Fiona Gradually Strengthening Near Puerto Rico, Threat to United States is Low”
Tropical Depression Seven Forms, Impacts to Eastern Caribbean Possible This Weekend
Lead Forecaster Daniel Crawley Good Wednesday evening to everyone. Not much going on in the weather department locally, so lets talk tropics… Tropical Depression Seven formed late this morning several hundred miles east of the Lesser Antilles. As of 7 pm Wednesday water vapor imagery shows a good bit of convection blossoming along and eastContinue reading “Tropical Depression Seven Forms, Impacts to Eastern Caribbean Possible This Weekend”
Tropics Awaken As We Enter September, Threat to United States Appear Minimal At This Time
Lead Forecaster Daniel Crawley After going nearly two months without a named tropical system in the Atlantic Basin we now have two features, Danielle which formed late yesterday in the North-Central Atlantic and Earl has formed late Friday evening ENE of the Lesser Antilles. As you can see on the Water Vapor Image above, bothContinue reading “Tropics Awaken As We Enter September, Threat to United States Appear Minimal At This Time”
State of the Tropics: What We Have Seen and Where We Could Be Headed
Lead Forecaster Daniel Crawley Tropical Weather is something that we have not had to worry about lately across the majority of the US coastal regions. After getting three named systems in the first five weeks of the 2022 Atlantic Hurricane Season, we have gone another six weeks with no additional systems in the basin. LookingContinue reading “State of the Tropics: What We Have Seen and Where We Could Be Headed”
Tropical Update: Gulf Coast Tropical Development This Week?
Lead Forecaster Daniel Crawley Good Sunday evening to everyone, We have been dealing with an active weather pattern lately across the Carolinas and a frontal boundary has now slid to our south. At this time of the year we need to pay close attention to what occurs along the front. This is a prime candidateContinue reading “Tropical Update: Gulf Coast Tropical Development This Week?”
Tropics About to Wake Up As We Finish June?
Lead Forecaster Daniel Crawley Let’s talk about the tropics…the month of June has been pretty quiet compared to what we have seen in recent years. Alex did form off the East Coast of the United States and that was all. In terms of global oscillations, the Atlantic Basin has been in negative phases, the Madden-JulianContinue reading “Tropics About to Wake Up As We Finish June?”