Early Monday morning, September 9 (3AM local time), Typhoon Faxai made landfall with maximum sustained 1-minute winds of 105 mph, a minimum central pressure of 955 mb in Chiba prefecture of the Kanto region of Japan, just east of Tokyo. An equivalent category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale, Chiba is one of the stronger typhoons to hit Tokyo in recorded history. ... Continue Reading »
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Weather Sentinel: Hurricane Dorian Passing Outer Banks – Weekend Atlantic Canada Threat
Hurricane Dorian continued to move along the coast of the Carolinas over the last 24 hours, bringing heavy rainfall, storm surge and tropical storm to hurricane conditions for eastern portions of the Carolinas. Considerable tornado activity was also reported, with substantial damage to certain areas evident from initial media reports. Landfall occurred this morning as a ... Continue Reading »
Weather Sentinel: Dorian Impacts Felt in the United States
Hurricane Dorian began a slow northwesterly track off of Grand Bahama Island on Tuesday afternoon, on a path paralleling the Florida Atlantic coastline. Hurricane force winds are remaining offshore of Florida, however storm surge and wave action along the coastline are causing significant beach erosion and flooding. The forecast for Dorian remains extremely challenging for ... Continue Reading »
Weather Sentinel: Weakening Hurricane Dorian – Ongoing Threats
Hurricane Dorian has rendered exceptionally severe impacts to portions of the northwestern Bahamas over the last 36 hours. In the meantime the storm has since weakened to a strong category-2 hurricane, and has developed a slow northwesterly motion in recent hours. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) best forecast takes Dorian parallel and offshore of the Florida Atlantic coast ... Continue Reading »
Weather Sentinel: Hurricane Dorian – Category 5 – Landfall in Bahamas, Impacts to US Still Uncertain
Hurricane Dorian strengthened to a category-5 hurricane overnight and is moving over Abaco Island on a slow path west toward the United States. The Northern Bahamas Islands are experiencing a storm surge of 15 to 20 feet above tide level in areas of onshore winds, coupled with destructive waves, rainfall in excess of 20 inches, and hurricane force winds. Much uncertainty ... Continue Reading »
Weather Sentinel: Hurricane Dorian – Category 4 – Threat to Bahamas, Southeast United States
Hurricane Dorian is now a strong category-4 hurricane posing an imminent threat to the northwestern Bahamas, for the threat of potentially devastating winds, storm surge and heavy rainfall. For the longer term into next week, the track forecast depends on an expected turn to the north, and the exact timing and placement of this turn carries great uncertainty. The National ... Continue Reading »
Weather Sentinel: Hurricane Dorian – Confidence increasing for Florida landfall as a major hurricane
Weather models are raising confidence and concern that Hurricane Dorian will make an eastern Florida landfall as a major hurricane, between late Sunday and early Tuesday, of the coming Labor Day weekend. Several critical aspects of the forecast that are being analyzed to gain further confidence in Dorian's track and potential impact to Florida are discussed below. Additionally, ... Continue Reading »
Weather Sentinel: Tropical Storm Dorian – Escalating Threat
Tropical Storm Dorian has regained structure and strength since crossing the Windward and Leeward Islands. It now appears that the storm will pass near or over the Virgin Islands over the coming hours. It is probable that the storm will strengthen to a hurricane later today. Hazards of concern include tropical storm wind conditions, heavy rainfall with some inland flooding, and ... Continue Reading »
Weather Sentinel: End of August Atlantic Update
Heading into the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season over the next 30 days, an uptick in activity is transpiring with Tropical Storm Dorian in the Caribbean and Tropical Depression #6 off the Eastern Seaboard of the United States. Along with Chantal from last week, this recent activity takes place after seasonal hurricane outlooks for the Atlantic Basin were increased in ... Continue Reading »
Weather Sentinel: Significant Wildfire Potential Outlook; August 2019
Moving into the late summer, weather patterns are favoring seasonal dryness in the western United States, where moderate to severe drought is persisting in the Pacific Northwest, and fuels are drying out and becoming receptive to fire. While fire activity has been slightly below average to date in 2019, the outlook is for normal to above normal wildland fire potential in the ... Continue Reading »
