The National Hurricane Center is monitoring an area in the Gulf of Mexico for tropical development during the next five days. And because it wouldn’t be an early season tropical system in the Gulf if it didn’t develop under weird circumstances, this one will involve the Central American Gyre working in cahoots with the remnants of Tropical Storm Amanda from… Read more →
As always, I’d like to take this time to remind everyone that I’m not a doctor. I’m more of a science and mathematics guy. These updates are meant as a way to turn the math and science of the COVID-19 outbreak into digestible English. New Numbers World Health Organization Worldwide Cases 5,488,825 Worldwide Deaths 349,095 CDC Total U.S. Cases 1,678,843… Read more →
The Central American Gyre is making waves again. For now, figuratively. But eventually, this may be literal. REcall that the Central American Gyre is a large area of lower pressure that can develop at any time during the Atlantic Hurricane Season when the atmospheric conditions are right. It doesn’t always produce tropical systems. Nor does is “turn into” a tropical… Read more →
Tuesday I wrote about trying out the Karrie Meter on the storms for Wednesday. Turned out alright. A reminder, the Karrie Meter looked like this: And here is a look at the number of Severe Thunderstorm Warnings: Not perfect for the region, but did well for the Pine Belt in Mississippi (which is where it is designed specifically to work)…. Read more →
The Karrie Meter isn’t often run in the Summer. In fact, up until last Friday, I’d never used it for the summer because whenever I ran the numbers for the spot forecasts, it never seemed to matter. But, before this year, I’d never had access to the Karrie Meter Map. Last Week A quick step back in time. Last week,… Read more →
