From a depression to a hurricane in just 21 hours, Rina is now a category 1 hurricane. Impressive plumes of convection can be seen in and around the center of circulation. There is nice banding around the bottom and sides of Rina, but the northern sect...

Ophelia has become the 4th hurricane of the season. We already had 7 hurricanes at this point last season, but we didn't even get 4 hurricanes the whole season the year before that in 2009. Ophelia's pressure is down to 979 mb, and her maximum sustaine...

Tropical Storm Nate is just about 12 hours away from making landfall in Mexico to the north of Veracruz. Nate is a 65 mph tropical storm and might be out of time to become our 3rd hurricane of the season. It won't take much intensification to get there...

By Brian Edwards, Meteorologist Aug 30, 2011; 10:45 AM ET While much of the mid-Atlantic and New England continues to suffer from residual flooding and power outages in the wake of Irene, a new storm in the Atlantic bears some watching. Katia (...

The focus for today is the remnants of Emily and whether or not it will redevelop. The probability of that happening is actually pretty high. The National Hurricane Center is giving it a 70% chance of redeveloping into a tropical cyclone within the nex...

By Heather Buchman, Meteorologist Aug 3, 2011; 2:48 PM ET Photos.com There is a lot more work that goes into preparing people for hurricanes than just the forecast. Risk communication is critical, and language barriers as well as cultural and ope...

On the first day of August, Tropical Storm Emily was classified by the National Hurricane Center at 8pm EST. Still not a great looking system but a Hurricane Hunter recon mission did find a closed center of circulation and surface winds of 40 mph. It's...

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Two tropical storms, named Bret and Cindy, are now in the open waters of the North Atlantic, while Hurricane Dora is continuing to strengthen in the eastern Pacific, off the west coast of Mexico. All three systems were captured on one GOES-13 satelli...

The wave train keeps on truckin across the Atlantic. 3 waves are clearly visible out there, but conditions are not quite right yet for any spinups.The more interesting feature at the moment is the low level trough that is moving through the Bahamas and...

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...

According to Reuters, "Bad weather halted some clean-up efforts from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill on Tuesday as ...

"A typical hurricane releases some 600 trillion watts of heat energy, equivalent to 200 times the world’s total electrical generating capacity." From Jocelyn Rice, Discover Magazine, 20 things ...

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