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Hurricane Preparedness Week is May 1-7, 2022. Be ready for hurricane season. Today you can determine your personal hurricane risk, find out if you live in a hurricane evacuation zone, and review/update insurance policies. You can also make a list of items to replenish hurricane emergency supplies and start thinking about how you will prepare …

Last week, our team at NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) released the final update to its 2021 Billion-dollar disaster report (www.ncdc.noaa.gov/billions), confirming what much of the nation experienced throughout 2021: another year of frequent and costly extremes. The year came in second to 2020 in terms of number of disasters (20 versus 22) …

CSU released its first extended range forecast for the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season on 7 April 2022. We anticipate that the 2022 Atlantic basin hurricane season will have above-normal activity. Current weak La Niña conditions look fairly likely to transition to neutral ENSO by this summer/fall, but the odds of a significant El Niño seem …

2020 was the most active hurricane season on record with 30 named storms, including powerful hurricanes like Hurricane Laura, Sally and Eta. As we enter into the 2021 hurricane season, people are more eager than ever for the annual predictions released by reputable weather sources like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Colorado State …

Hurricane Isaias (ees-ah-EE-ahs) lashed the Northeast U.S. with destructive winds, tornadoes and flooding rainfall after its North Carolina landfall, a graze of Florida’s East Coast, and soaking the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico with flooding rain. Isaias developed from a large, vigorous tropical wave which emerged off the west coast of Africa around July 23-24. READ MORE https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2020-08-04-tropical-storm-isaias-forecast-northeast-flooding-damaging-winds

The extremely active 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is drawing to a close with a record-breaking 30 named storms and 11 landfalling storms in the continental United States. While the official hurricane season concludes on November 30, tropical storms may continue to develop past that day. NOAA’s seasonal hurricane outlooks accurately predicted a high likelihood of …

On the morning of Wednesday, September 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico with sustained winds of 155 mph, uprooting trees, downing weather stations and cell towers, and ripping wooden and tin roofs off homes. Electricity was cut off to 100 percent of the island, and access to clean water and food became limited for …

Hanna was a category 1 hurricane (on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale) that made landfall on Padre Island, Texas. Hanna was the first July hurricane to make landfall in Texas since Hurricane Dolly in July 2008. READ MORE https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL082020_Hanna.pdf

May 21, 2020  — An above-normal 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is expected, according to forecasters with NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, a division of the National Weather Service. The outlook predicts a 60% chance of an above-normal season, a 30% chance of a near-normal season and only a 10% chance of a below-normal season. The Atlantic …

Katrina. Camille. Andrew. Maria. Sandy. These are names of hurricanes that will live in infamy. Which name or names this year might join that list of unforgettable storms? Only time will tell. Hurricane season officially begins June 1, and forecasters have predicted an “above-average probability for major hurricanes making landfall along the continental United States.” Meteorologists …

A hurricane season will always be known by the storms that make landfall and how severe they were, but the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season also had a few headlines from storms that didn’t come close to land. The 2019 hurricane season was tied for the fourth most active on record by the number of tropical …

Tropical Depression Five formed about 800 miles east-southeast of Barbados on August 24th, 2019 at 11 am AST.  At 5 PM AST, Tropical Depression Five was upgraded to Tropical Storm Dorian with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph, heading west-northwest as it was steered by a subtropical high pressure to the north.  There were competing environmental …

There were no deaths locally that were directly related to Hurricane Barry. Summary of all Local Storm Reports (LSRs) across the area during Hurricane Barry and LSRs across the region during Barry. Hurricane Barry made landfall west of our area (coastal Louisiana). The majority of this document will focus on the impacts from coastal flooding and rainfall across southeast Mississippi, southwest …

Barry formed over the north-central Gulf of Mexico from a non-tropical origin and moved slowly west-northwestward across the northern Gulf.  The cyclone made landfall as a category 1 hurricane (on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale) over south-central Louisiana and produced a large area of heavy rainfall and flooding along and to the east of its …

MIAMI (CBSMiami) — Colorado State University hurricane experts released an update to its 2019 Atlantic hurricane season prediction, forecasting a slight increase in storms this year. The CSU Tropical Meteorology Project said it expects there to be 14 named storms this year, up from the 13 named storms it predicted in April, before hurricane season …

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is predicting a “near-normal” hurricane season in 2019, with between two and four major hurricanes expected. However, only two major hurricanes hit in 2018, but both made direct strikes on the United States, causing billions of dollars in damage and claiming dozens of lives. Gerry Bell, NOAA’s Climate …

NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center is predicting that a near-normal Atlantic hurricane season is most likely this year. This outlook forecasts a 40% chance of a near-normal season, a 30% chance of an above-normal season and a 30% chance of a below-normal season. The hurricane season officially extends from June 1 to November 30. For 2019, NOAA predicts …

By CSU Tropical Meteorology Project Colorado State University hurricane researchers are predicting a slightly below-average Atlantic hurricane season in 2019, citing the relatively high likelihood of a weak El Niño as a primary factor. Tropical Atlantic sea surface temperatures are currently slightly below their long-term average values and are consequently considered an inhibiting factor for 2019 Atlantic …

Scientists at NOAA’s National Hurricane Center conducted a detailed post-storm analysis on all the data available for Hurricane Michael and have determined that the storm’s estimated intensity at landfall was 140 knots (160 mph). This final wind intensity is a 5 knot (5 mph) increase over the operational estimate and makes Michael a category 5 storm on …

The 2019 Atlantic hurricane season names list begins with a rather familiar name. The season’s first named storm will be Andrea, which kicked off the 2013 season in early June and was a subtropical storm before Mother’s Day in early May 2007. Atlantic storm name lists are maintained by a committee of the World Meteorological …

By CSU Tropical Meteorology Project Colorado State University hurricane researchers are predicting a slightly below-average Atlantic hurricane season in 2019, citing the relatively high likelihood of a weak El Niño as a primary factor. Tropical Atlantic sea surface temperatures are currently slightly below their long-term average values and are consequently considered an inhibiting factor for 2019 Atlantic …

This After-Action Report and Improvement Plan (AAR/IP) comprehensively examines the Florida State Emergency Response Team’s (SERT) response to Hurricane Michael in order to validate strengths and identify areas of improvement. READ MORE https://portal.floridadisaster.org/SERT/AfterActionReports/Real-World%20AARs/Hurricane%20Michael%20AAR-IP%201-7-19.pdf

Timeline, Aftermath & Statistics Hurricane Michael roared into the Gulf of Mexico Oct. 9, 2018 as a late-season storm that was not expected to turn into 155 Now 160 miles per hour sustained on the Florida Panhandle. Making landfall the next day in Mexico Beach, Florida, the Category 4 Now Cat 5 hurricane was the strongest storm of the …

Michael was a category 5 hurricane (on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale) that made a catastrophic landfall near Mexico Beach and Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, producing devastating winds and storm surge near the coast, and rain and wind inland.  It was directly responsible for 16 deaths and about $25 billion in damage in the …

Hurricane-force wind gusts, torrential rains, and a massive storm surge are belting Florida’s Panhandle as extremely dangerous Hurricane Michael closes in on an afternoon landfall. At 1 pm EDT, the hurricane hunters found that Michael was still intensifying, with sustained winds of 150 mph and a central pressure of 919 mb. A storm surge of …

Barry formed over the north-central Gulf of Mexico from a non-tropical origin and moved slowly west-northwestward across the northern Gulf. The cyclone made landfall as a category 1 hurricane (on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale) over south-central Louisiana and produced a large area of heavy rainfall and flooding along and to the east of its …