Even as Potential Tropical Cyclone 8 struggled to make a name for itself off the southeastern U.S. coast on Monday, it brought tropical storm-like weather to the North Carolina coast. Satellite imagery and reconnaissance flights showed PTC 8 was entangled in a stubborn front that extended the circulation and prevented it from developing into a […]
Hurricane and storm surge warnings have been issued for most of coastal Louisiana as Tropical Storm Francine, currently over the Bay of Campeche in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico, is expected to make landfall late Wednesday. Francine’s appearance on Sept. 9 ends an exceptionally long period without a named storm in the Atlantic (see tweet […]
Typhoon Yagi underwent spectacular intensification in the northwest Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, taking it from Category 1 to Category 4 in less than 12 hours. Yagi’s one-minute sustained winds reached 150 mph (240 km/h) at 8 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. This classified it as a super typhoon (one-minute […]
