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Time flies when you’re having fun. It’s only 2½ months until the Atlantic hurricane season starts up. Just to help remind us of that fact, ’tis the season for tropical weather researchers to be dragged from their groundhog dens to emerge from their computer laboratories and prognosticate about the coming season. Quoting Insurance Journal: Hurricane Forecaster [...]
As seen on the newswires: First the Old Man, now the Big Wind. New Hampshire’s Mount Washington has lost its distinction as the site of the fastest wind gust ever recorded on Earth, officials at the Mount Washington Observatory said Tuesday. The concession came three days after the World Meteorological Organization posted a snippet on its Web [...]
Via Jeff Masters’ blog at Weather Underground, NASA mentioned that one of the more useful tools in tropical weather monitoring was lost early this week: Several hours ago, shortly past 7:00Z today (23Nov), telemetry received from QuikSCAT indicates that the antenna rotation rate has dropped to zero and remains at zero. The motor remains powered. The [...]
From zero to possibly three in just a couple of days. Impressive:
Straight from the meteorologists’ website: Information obtained through November 2008 indicates that the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season will be somewhat more active than the average 1950-2000 season. We estimate that 2009 will have about 7 hurricanes (average is 5.9), 14 named storms (average is 9.6), 70 named storm days (average is 49.1), 30 hurricane days (average [...]
I know that several folks (myself included) were breathing a sigh of relief and discounting Fay as just a Tropical Storm. Maybe we get to upgrade her to "just a cat 1 with a wacky path". The 11pm update has her actually strengthening over the peninsula, and a forecasted re-landfall as a Cat 1 hurricane near [...]
Seen in the Orlando Sentinel: Gov. Charlie Crist and the Florida Cabinet had told the state’s risk managers to find potential buyers for as much as $11 billion in bonds that would be needed to pay claims if the state is racked by a Katrina-sized hurricane. But with financial markets in tatters, state money managers say [...] 
You know, if the insurance industry had an effective, clueful industry PR engine, this blurb from Insurance Journal would be receiving a lot of media play right about now (well, except for that primary thingy taking place in New Hampshire): No complaints have been received by the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) on how the insurance [...]
The question is — has the sun not quite set on storm season ‘07, or is storm season ‘08 getting off to a very early start? From the National Hurricane Center: SPECIAL TROPICAL DISTURBANCE STATEMENT A SURFACE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM CENTERED OVER THE EASTERN ATLANTIC
As expected, we’re not quite done with tropical storm season 2007…. |
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