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 [...]
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 [...]
The center of Hurricane Bill missed the Southern New England coast by about 200 miles – and it’s a very good thing it did. The storm still came close enough to deliver over 2 inches of rain to Southeastern Massachusetts. Most of the rain came from one heavy band that set up in the Buzzards [...]
ABC6 Stormtracker Chief Meteorologist Fred Campagna has hourly updates on Hurricane Bill as it moves east of New England Saturday. Hurricane Bill is accelerating to the north, and will likely pass within 200 miles of Nantucket Saturday night. Check in throughout the day and evening for constant updates on Bill’s position, strength, track, and local [...]
One of the things that can be helpful when looking at a storm’s potential track and impact is to look back at previous storms. As far as I can tell, the most recent storm with a track similar to Bill’s forecast track was Hurricane Edouard in 1996. Hurricane Edouard, although not a landfalling hurricane in [...]
Just like that, the tropics are active. Ana may be back to a Tropical Depression, but Bill is looking strong, and Claudette is whipping the Florida Panhandle with rain and wind. Claudette developed overnight Sunday, and was immediately a threat to make landfall in the US. The storm spun up off the west coast of [...]
A late-July storm brings 2-4″ of rain and wind gusts over 40 mph downing trees and power lines. Sure sounds like a tropical system, but it wasn’t. A rare mid-summer Nor’easter roared through Southern New England last night. Sure, the storm had tropically enhanced rain, but the core of the storm was charged by a [...]