According to Bill Read, the Director of the National Hurricane center, change will continue to be the watch word as we head into the future when it comes to the Center and its products. Rapid advances in graphics and web products means that you will see a lot of new things this year. [...]
Some notes on the 2009 Atlantic Hurricane Season from the Tropical Meteorology Project team at Colorado State University:
…It was a late starting season. Ana was the latest “A” storm (August 15) since Andrew (August 17, 1992)
…9 named storms fewest since 1997, when there were 8
…27.25 named storm days, the lowest since 1991 (24.25)
…3 hurricanes [...]
The Atlantic Hurricane Season comes to a close on Monday. The average number of named storms is 9.6, with 5.3 of them becoming hurricanes. On average, there are 2.3 major hurricanes.
Back in April before the season started, the folks at Colorado State predicted 12 named storms and 6 hurricanes, with two of [...]
Well, Ida no longer exists officially, but her remains are causing real problems along the Mid-Atlantic Coast, especially along the North Carolina/Virginia coast with battering waves, strong winds and very heavy rain. The actual center is near or just off shore from the North Carolina Outer Banks.
Here are a few spot reports at 10:00 [...]
Ida is now totally extra-tropical. Scroll down for much more on the morning discussion and Weather Xtreme video…
WTNT31 KNHC 101433
TCPAT1
BULLETIN
TROPICAL DEPRESSION IDA ADVISORY NUMBER 27
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL112009
900 AM CST TUE NOV 10 2009
…IDA BECOMES EXTRATROPICAL…ALL WARNINGS DISCONTINUED…
AT 900 AM CST…1500 UTC…ALL TROPICAL STORM WARNINGS HAVE BEEN
DISCONTINUED.
FOR STORM INFORMATION [...]
Widespread rain continues at midmorning. A radar check at 8:40 a.m.
indicated extensive rain over North and Central Alabama, especially
from Montgomery northward. The heaviest rain seemed to be over West/
Central and NW Alabama, especially from about Livingston northward
through Pickens, Tuscaloosa, Walker, Fayette, Marion and Winston
Counties. Some of that edges into the Birmingham area and gives us
brief [...]
Thanks to Michelle Miklik for gathering these rain totals across the state…
Loxley-3.88
Mobile (1.2 WSW)-4.01
Prattville- 2.43
Alex City-2.65
Elberta (8.2 ESE)- 5.12
Tillman’s Corner- 4.14
Foley- 6.61
Orange Beach- 5.00
Sylacauga-2.88
Meadowbrook- 2.40
Helena- 2.27
Jasper-1.00
Trussvile-1.84
Anniston-1.24
Dothan-1.10
Talladega-2.38
Calera-2.85
Opelika-5.40
Holt-2.48
My total in North Shelby County is 2.20″. The rain had ended over the southern quarter of Alabama, and the rain will end statewide later today or tonight…
* At Mobile Regional Airport, 3.22 inches of rain since yesterday morning.
* Birmingham reporting a steady, chilly rain, moderate to heavy at times. Brisk NE wind.
* At 4 am, the heaviest rain was in an arc curving from Hattiesburg and Meridian in East Mississippi northeastward to the general area of Tuscaloosa and Birmingham.
* NWS Huntsville [...]
It is 3 o’clock on this Tuesday morning and Tropical Storm Ida is still not onshore. The forward movement has slowed. It is raining and windy over almost the entire state. Here are a few current spot reports and just below those is the latest 3 am advisory:
SPOT REPORTS
Maxwell Air Force base…steady rain, wind NE, [...]
The broad center of weakening Tropical Storm Ida will move into Mobile Bay shortly. No sense to focus on the low pressure center since the system is now a large area of wind and rain. Wind gusts are generally in the 30 to 40 mph range. The Mobile Airport reports a wind gust to 37 [...]