Dan’s Wild Wild Weather Journal

Looking at the satellite imagery this evening is a scary prospect. Hannah is now a hurricane east of the Bahamas. The numerical weather prediction (NWP) guidance brings it into Savannah or S. Carolina as a minimal hurricane by Friday afternoon.

A new tropical storm has formed in the middle of the Tropical Atlantic. This system looks very healthy, and is now named Tropical Storm Ike. I suspect it will become a hurricane and approach the Bahamas and perhaps the USA in 7-10 days.

Looks like a busy September, with a lot of tropical troubles….

Later,
Dan

I have a screencast update on Hurricane Gustav. It was recorded at 12:30 am (0530Z). I’m still getting used to this software, and it will get better.

This is a chance for you to get an in depth look at what I am seeing in the maps as I go through the forecast process.

Video is here: GUSTAV UPDATE

On the brighter side of things. Meteorological Summer ended at midnight!!

Dan

ps: You will need the Quicktime movie player to view it. It will play much fast if you are on a mac. I recorded it on my Imac at home. If you are on Windows PC, download the file to your desktop before playing. File is 23 megbytes, so broadband is needed.