Posts Tagged ‘hurricane season’
Today Marks Peak of Hurricane Season
By Kristina Pydynowski, Senior Meteorologist Sep 10, 2011; 8:40 AM ET The tropics are definitely active with three named systems currently churning in the Atlantic Basin. Such a number is not unusual considering Saturday is historically known as...
Weather Can Knock Out U.S. Economy
By Grace Muller, AccuWeather.com Staff Writer Aug 8, 2011; 7:52 AM ET Drought, floods, thunderstorms, tornadoes and the heat wave. Weather has hit the United States brutally this year. What now? The worst of hurricane season is ahead. With tumbl...
Is Hurricane Season Canceled This Year?
By Alex Sosnowski, Expert Senior Meteorologist Jul 26, 2011; 8:37 AM ET No, the 2011 hurricane season isn't fashionably late to the party; it's right on time. "The most active part of the season is yet to come, and all indications are that August...
Hurricane Season 2011: Tropical Weather Outlook – 12 July
A couple of tropical waves were highlighted by the Hurricane Center today and both given a 10% chance of development over the next 48 hours. The wave just approaching the windward islands we be encountering some heavy wind shear as it enters ...
Hurricane Season Starts Sunday in Eastern Pacific
By Kristina Pydynowski, Senior Meteorologist May 13, 2011; 11:00 AM ET Sunday marks the official start of the 2011 hurricane season in the Eastern Pacific, a season which is expected to exceed the amount of named tropical systems from last year ...
Mississippi River flood of 2011 already a $2 billion disaster
The Mississippi River continues to rise to heights never seen before along its course through the states of Mississippi and Louisiana. At Natchez, Mississippi, the river has already hit 59 feet, breaking the previous all-time record of 58 feet set in t...
U.S. may see several hurricane landfalls in 2011: WSI (Reuters)
MIAMI (Reuters) – The 2011 Atlantic hurricane season will be active with the energy-rich U.S. Gulf Coast facing a significant threat of a hurricane landfall, a leading private weather forecaster predicted on Tuesday. The forecast by Weather Services...
The global tropical cyclone season of 2010: record inactivity
The year 2010 was one of the strangest on record globally for tropical cyclones. Each year, the globe has about 92 tropical cyclones--called hurricanes in the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific, typhoons in the Western Pacific, and tropical cyclones in the S...
2010 Weather Year in Review
As we say goodbye to 2010, AccuWeather.com took a look at the unusual and extreme weather events that hit the United States over the past year.
Second Tropical Cyclone Ever in South Atlantic
Hurricane Season:”We hope the good Lord spares us this year”
National Hurricane Center Predicts 9 to 14 Named Storms For 2009
The Washington Post was reporting yesterday on the press conference given by government officials in a cavernous airplane hangar at Reagan National Airport. "The first this ...
Interested In Hurricanes? Watch This Video
The 2009 hurricane season is upon us and officially starts on June 1st. Alan Sealls, Chief Meteorologist at WKRG News for Mobile-Pensacola, last year prepared an excellent video on hurricanes. Alan talks ...
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