Tropical Storm Alex is in the Gulf of Mexico and slowly strengthening. The storm is expected to become a hurricane in the next 24 hours. ABC6 Stormtracker Chief Meteorologist Fred Campagna has the latest on its projected track, impact at landfall, and impact on the oil spill.
Stormtracker Chief Meteorologist Fred Campagna answers viewer questions about the summer and hurricane season. Will it be a better summer than last year? Will it be an active hurricane season?
September 21 marks the 71st anniversary of the largest, most damaging hurricane to strike Southern New England in the past century. The Great Hurricane of 1938 killed 600 people and injured more than 4000 more. 75,000 buildings were damaged or destroyed. It is still the worst natural disaster in the history of New York, Connecticut, [...]
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.
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.
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.
Hurricane Bill has had a rough night, with some wind shear and dry air helping to weaken the storm to 115 mph. The storm is still over very warm water, so some intensification is possible in the next day. Even though the intensity forecast has been inaccurate, the track forecast has been very consistent. Bill [...]