The hyperactive Atlantic season continues unabated. Category-4 Teddy will track close to Bermuda as a major hurricane Sunday night. Tropical Storm Wilfred formed today in the deep tropics and is no risk to land while Subtropical Storm Alpha formed just off the coast of Portugal. Tropical Depression Twenty-Two is likely to become Beta over the weekend and needs to be mo ... Continue Reading »
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Hurricane Sally Makes Category-2 Landfall Near Gulf Shores, Alabama
Hurricane Sally made landfall at 4:45 am local time near Gulf Shores, Alabama as a Category-2 Hurricane. Sally is the fourth hurricane to make landfall in the continental U.S. this year and is the first hurricane to make landfall in Alabama since Hurricane Ivan in 2004. Sally is forecast to move inland slowly today while weakening, before regaining forward speed along a ... Continue Reading »
Hurricane Sally on Final Approach to Central Gulf Coast
Hurricane Sally is now drifting in the northern Gulf of Mexico as a category-1 hurricane, and expected to begin a slow turn to the northeast over the coming hours. The hurricane is forecast to make landfall very early Wednesday morning. The slow forward motion of the system will bring prolonged periods of heavy rainfall to amplify the threat for inland flooding. Wind impacts ... Continue Reading »
Tropical Storm Sally Expected to Make Landfall as a Slow-Moving Hurricane in Louisiana
Tropical Storm Sally continues to track slowly toward the Central Gulf Coast and is expected to take advantage of warm waters and low wind shear to strengthen into a hurricane prior to landfall. At the peak of hurricane season, Sally is one of five systems currently active in the Atlantic, including Hurricane Paulette that made landfall in Bermuda this morning. There ... Continue Reading »
Strengthening Tropical Storm Sally on Path to Hurricane Landfall along Central Gulf Coast
Tropical Storm Sally has been bringing heavy rainfall and winds to portions of Florida over the weekend, and is now emerging into the Gulf of Mexico. Both of the best predictors for strengthening are present; namely very warm waters and low wind shear. A hurricane landfall along the Central Gulf Coast, with the threat of heavy rainfall, strong winds, and a dangerous storm surge ... Continue Reading »
Oregon and California Fires
Exceedingly hot and dry conditions combined with an extreme wind event beginning on September 7 resulted in explosive growth of existing fires and the ignition and rapid spread of several fires in the Pacific Northwest. These conditions have resulted in five fires in Oregon that have currently burned more than 100,000 acres with numerous smaller fires prompting massive ... Continue Reading »
CAT-i Bulletin: Typhoon Haishen
Typhoon Haishen made landfall near Ulsan, South Korea around 9 AM GMT+9 Monday, with 1-minute maximum sustained winds of around 155 km/hr (96 mph) prior to landfall, a category-2. About six hours before landfall, the storm brushed past Japan’s Kyushu Island. Haishen hit areas already affected by typhoon Maysak, and flood effects were further amplified by prior monsoon activity i ... Continue Reading »
Extreme Fire Weather Conditions and September Wildfire Outlook
Excessively hot temperatures in recent days have created favorable conditions for the growth of numerous ongoing fires in the western United States as well as the ignition and spread of several new fires. A cold front has begun to bring cooler temperatures and precipitation in the form of both rain and snow to parts of the Mountain West but is also increasing wind speeds ... Continue Reading »
Typhoon Haishen/Maysak – Korean Peninsula & Japan
Typhoon Haishen is an escalating threat to portions of Japan and the Korean Peninsula over the coming days, with the threat of destructive winds and heavy rainfall. This threat comes after Typhoon Maysak followed a similar track earlier in the week, with reports of heavy rainfall and inland flooding, and wind damage with downed trees and powerlines. Typhoon Haishen is ... Continue Reading »
Hurricane Nana Makes Landfall in Belize
Hurricane Nana intensified to a minimal category-1 hurricane in the western Caribbean Sea late Wednesday, hours before making landfall on the coast of Belize between the cities of Dangriga and Placencia, 50 miles south of Belize City. After landfall, Nana has moved inland across Belize with the primary threat of heavy rainfall in mountainous areas of Belize, Honduras and ... Continue Reading »
