Tropical weather
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Now that we are in the tropical storm season, it’s important to make sure that people in coastal areas are prepared for the potential devastation of a hurricane or other disaster occurring and affecting their business. They could lose records, electricity, internet, or the building itself. And it does not need to be a business…
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Update: As of 4 am, this was named TS Claudette. The National Hurricane Center is still watching Potential Tropical Cyclone Three to see if it organizes enough to become a named storm before or soon after it makes landfall sometime overnight. If you read this in the morning, then you will know what happened! The…
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The National Hurricane Center is tracking a weak center of low pressure in the Gulf of Mexico that could develop into Tropical Storm Claudette in the next day. It is still quite disorganized, so predicting the path of the storm is somewhat difficult. However, the current path of the storm brings it onshore in eastern…
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As I discussed yesterday, there appears to be a possible tropical storm brewing in the Bay of Campeche this week. There is nothing organized there now, but computer models suggest that a circulation has an 80% chance of developing into a tropical depression that is expected to head north. If and when that happens, it…
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Tropical Storm Bill developed quickly off the coast of North Carolina today and is expected to move off towards the northeast before it becomes extratropical and dissipates in about 48 hours. There is no threat to the US other than some high waves near the coast. Two other areas of concern have been identified by…
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The 5-day outlook from the National Hurricane Center shows two areas of possible development. One is off the East Coast with a little low along a front that could spin up over the warm Gulf Stream. That would not affect most of the Southeast other than the immediate coast, and it has only a 10…
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