Felix Forming? August 31, 2007

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) has been watching a tropical wave move across the far eastern Atlantic for the past few days, anticipating favorable conditions for tropical storm formation. This morning NHC issued a special statement as satellite pictures seem to show the system beginning to organize.
SPECIAL TROPICAL DISTURBANCE STATEMENTNWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI [...]

Wildfires In Greece August 27, 2007

Wildfires in Greece have been in the news in recent days. Below is a striking satellite photo of the areas affected. The photo and text are courtesy of StormCenter Communications.—————
This image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite shows the fires on Sunday afternoon, August 26. The areas where MODIS detected [...]

Monday Hurricane Anniversary August 27, 2007

On Monday, August 27, 1971 Hurricane Doria moved up the Mid Atlantic coast. The eye passed close to Ocean City in the evening hours. The rainfall record that date in Baltimore was established at 4.04″. Philadelphia recorded 6.57″ of rain, Trenton & Newark, New Jersey just over 8 inches and New York City 5.96″.
John Collins

ANDREW ANNIVERSARY August 27, 2007

How soon we forget. Katrina, understandably, has been the focus of our attention over the past couple of years but back in 1992 hurricane Andrew was completing its’ run across south Florida and Louisiana.
August 24 radar image of Andrew making landfall near Homestead, Florida. This was the last image transmitted by the radar before it [...]

Record Breaker? August 25, 2007

Saturday will be very hot and humid. A heat advisory is in effect for most of Maryland. High temperatures are expected to be in the upper 90s to around 100 degrees. With the high humidity factored in it will feel more like 105-110.
The record high temperature for Saturday is vulnerable. The record is currently 97, [...]

August Snow! August 25, 2007

Heat advisories are up for Saturday with high temperatures expected to reach near record levels (BWI-Marshall record for Aug. 25th is 97 set in 1968) and heat index readings likely to push toward 110, so the title of this blog entry probably seems a little nutty! Ahhh…but there was a fresh snowfall to report [...]

Dean Remnant August 24, 2007

The remnant of the storm that was once Hurricane Dean has crossed Mexico and has moved into the Pacific OceanIn the picture above the remnant of Dean is the broad area of clouds circulating around the southern end of Baja California where the Gulf of California opens into the Pacific Ocean. The center of the [...]

The Great 1933 Hurricane August 23, 2007

This is the anniversary of the 1933 hurricane that struck the Mid Atlantic Region. The National Weather Service map below shows the track of all of the storms from the 1933 season.The storm that hit this region started in the mid Atlantic Ocean and made landfall as a hurricane on the Outer Banks. It then [...]

Dramatic Dean Photographs August 22, 2007

The image and descriptive text below were provided by StormCenter Communications.———This image of the eye of Hurricane Dean was taken by an astronaut aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on August 18, 2007. At the time of the photograph Dean was a very strong Category 4 hurricane in the Caribbean Sea passing just south of [...]

Dean Finale August 22, 2007

Hurricane dean has made its’ final landfall. Here is the bulletin from the National Hurricane Center.
000WTNT64 KNHC 221646TCUAT4HURRICANE DEAN TROPICAL CYCLONE UPDATENWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL0420071150 AM CDT WED AUG 22 2007
THE CENTER OF HURRICANE DEAN MADE LANDFALL IN MEXICO NEAR THE TOWN OF TECOLUTLA…JUST EAST OF GUTIERREZ ZAMORA AND ABOUT [...]