Sign of the Season
Winter Weather Advisory continues for the Beartooth Highway in Wyoming, one of the most beautiful drives in the country.
Winter Weather Advisory continues for the Beartooth Highway in Wyoming, one of the most beautiful drives in the country.
Our friend and storm chaser extraordinaire Brett Adair positioned himself in Cocodrie, LA this afternoon along LA-56, in very low lying territory and caught water rising rapidly.
Hurricane Francine will make landfall in southern Louisiana tomorrow afternoon around 6 p.m. in the area between Vermillion, Iberia, St. Mary, and Terrebonne parishes with top winds around 90 mph.
The HRRR continues to indicate the potential for 6 hr accumulations up to 6 near Los Angeles, which would be equivalent to a 500 yr + rainfall event
The January thaw is a weather singularity. A singularity is an event that occurs more often than one would expect with chance. The January thaw is a period of above normal warmth that frequently occurs in mid-Winter in the eastern U.S. and eastern Canada.
There is a small chance that Ophelia could become a hurricane before landfall, which will occur about 4:30 a.m. CDT near Swansboro or Emerald Isle.
After an amazing 24 hours of strengthening that saw Lee intensify 55 mph from 75 to 130 mph and its central pressure estimate to drop from 991 mb to 953 mb, Lee may already be a Category Five hurricane.
The actual forecast from the NHC calls for it to reach Category Five status late tonight.
Tropical Depression number 14 has formed but it is not expected to be a threat to any land areas. Hurricane Lee’s eventual destination is less certain and there could be impacts to Bermuda or the northeastern coast of the U.S. or Atlantic Canada.
Lee is expected to become a powerful hurricane in coming days, and interests along the East Coast from the Outer Banks north should monitor its progress.
It is too early to tell if Lee will be a threat to the U.S. East Coast, but that potential is there. Folks in the Leewards and Puerto Rico should pay close attention to the latest forecasts.