I have posted about astronomical “buzz cuts” before, but this one takes it to a new level. Asteroid 2020 SW is about to get really, really close to Earth. According to NASA, an asteroid will pass between the Earth and the Moon during the next 24 hours. The large piece of Space Rock is about 5-to-10 meters in length, about… Read more →
Because why not, right? If there is anything the 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season has taught me, it is that Professor Nicholson was right: “All the rules always apply… except when they don’t.” Having back-to-back systems in the Gulf, when one of those systems was the first wave to enter the gulf, but the second wave to develop in the Gulf,… Read more →
On the heels of Hurricane Sally, the National Hurricane Center is watching a different tropical disturbance in the Gulf, simultaneously. This area moved past the northern Gulf Coast last weekend and has been parked in the Bay of Campeche for the last few days. From the NHC Here is a look at the latest discussion from the National Hurricane Center…… Read more →
Hurricane Sally continues to defy all odds and rapidly intensify under the most unlikely of situations. The storm did finally reduce the dry air entrainment, but it is sitting over not-as-warm-as-earlier waters that are also more shallow, and can be cooled easier by rain and wind. And it is doing so in an atmospheric environment with more shear now than… Read more →
It looks like the westward progression of Hurricane Sally may be coming to an end. The latest water vapor imagery from the College of DuPage shows some modest flow in the mid-levels that is – very lightly – pushing Sally from the west. That will help to slow Sally to a crawl and eventually turn the storm to the north… Read more →
