The tropics are unusually quiet for the middle of September. What’s left of Fred is drifting through the Atlantic north of the Caribbean Islands. It is not expected to regenerate, although I have seen one computer model that brings it back just east of Florida late in the weekend.
Elsewhere, there is a persistent area [...]
We’re about a week past the peak of the hurricane season and the tropics are quiet, but there are a few areas that the National Hurricane Center is looking at for development in the next two days. ABC6 Stormtracker Chief Meteorologist Fred Campagna has the latest.
ABC6 Stormtracker Chief Meteorologist Fred Campagna has an update on his namesake and that intense storm sitting off the Mid-Atlantic coast. The storm to our south, although non-tropical, will have similar impacts to a tropical storm along the coast.
Hurricane Fred achieved major status with winds of 120 mph earlier today, but the storm is still thousands of miles from land and has begun to turn to the north into a graveyard for tropical systems.
The storm was only the second hurricane of the season. A low number, especially considering that tomorrow is the peak [...]
Tropical Storm Fred, although strengthening, is not a threat to land. The odds of this storm ever becoming a threat are very low. The storm is 3500 miles from Providence. It is in the far Eastern Atlantic. The storm has strengthened to 70 mph today. It is moving W at 13 mph.
The forecast is for [...]
Tropical Storm Erika is not behaving exactly as expected. The storm has meandered a bit farther south than forecast, and it has weakened, rather than strengthening, today. The storm has already proven to be fickle, and its forecast is somewhat uncertain over the coming days.
Tropical Storm Watches are up for the US Virgin Islands [...]
The disturbance just east of the Caribbean has finally become Tropical Storm Erika. ABC6 Chief Stormtracker Meteorologist has a quick video update.
The disturbance known as Invest 94 is within 500 miles of the Lesser Antilles and is looking strong on satellite imagery. ABC6 Stormtracker Chief Meteorologist Fred Campagna has the latest in a video update.
Invest 94 has been on the map for a few days. It is still not quite a tropical system, but indications are it has a very good chance of becoming one in the next 48 hours.
ABC6 Chief Stormtracker Meteorologist Fred Campagna has a video update on the disturbance.
Several computer models are indicating that the disturbance in the northern Caribbean may become a tropical system by midweek. Right now, the tropical wave is fighting off some wind shear and dry air, but it may be able to overcome that and develop in the warm waters of the southwest Atlantic.
If this disturbance does become [...]