Everything seemed to be coming together for a hyperactive hurricane season: very warm water in the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, a developing La Nina in the Eastern Pacific, light trade winds. Yes, everything is coming together except for the actual storms. Through the first two months of hurricane season there have been two named [...]

Category 3 Hurricane Bill continues to churn up the Atlantic. Tropical Storm force wind gusts extended more than 200 miles from the center of the storm. Seas of 18 ft. were recorded by a buoy 220 miles from the eye. The National Hurricane Center track is well to our east on Sunday morning, but with [...]

ABC6 Stormtracker Jim Corbin shares some home video of Hurricane Bob on the 18th anniversary of the last hurricane to directly strike the Southern New England coast. This video from Jim Corbin ( heard briefly on the phone and seen very briefly looking out the window!) shows Hurricane Bob on August 19, 1991 affecting Westboro, [...]

I have already heard quite a bit of chatter about Hurricane Bill’s potential to impact Southern New England. So, is he a threat? The answer is “no”, unless Bill takes a dramatically different course than computer models are projecting. Sure, there are some computer models that show Bill sitting precariously between Bermuda and Southern New [...]

T.D. Two has been steadily moving west over the last couple of days, but it has shown very little change in intensity. The storm has had winds of 30-35 mph since it first formed at 6AM on August 11. A couple of factors may be impeding the storm’s development. The first factor is a lot [...]

It has been an unusually slow start to the hurricane season in the Atlantic Basin. So far, there has not been a named storm. The last time we made it through July without a single named storm was 2004. That year went on to be relatively active, with 15 named storms and 9 hurricanes. If [...]