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 [...]
Hurricane Bill is looking ragged again this evening. It will be interesting to see if it can get it together before starting to curve to the north-northeast, but at this rate I’d be surprised if Bill is more than a minimal hurricane in 30 hours. The intensity forecast for this storm was awful. It was [...]
Hurricane Bill is still almost 1000 miles away from the Southern New England coast, but his calling cards – large swells – are already appearing just offshore. ABC6 Chief Meteorologist Fred Campagna takes a look at some of the buoy conditions, and gives another update on the strength and projected track of this large storm.
After looking at the latest computer guidance, I am more confident in a track that takes Hurricane Bill far enough to our east that there will be very little impact, if any, in Rhode Island, and a minor impact on the Cape and Islands. Bill was not looking overly impressive just after midnight Friday. The [...]
Hurricane Bill is a category 4 storm with winds of 135 mph. The storm is not an imminent threat to Southern New England, but it bears very close monitoring over the next couple of days. At this point, the greatest impact in Southern New England should be high surf. If the storm is as intense [...]
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 [...]
Tropical Depression Two died as a result of dry air and wind shear in the Eastern Atlantic. The storm has shown no signs of regeneration this evening, but it is still possible that it makes a return in the next few days. I would not count on it. On the heels of T.D. Two is [...]
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 [...]