Per Jeff Master’s daily Wunderblog, it looks like Hurricane Bill, now an impressive and well organized Category 4 hurricane (see Saffir-Simpson scale for detailed explanation of Category 4 strength) could very well have an impact upon New England generally and Cape Cod, MA specifically.  Bill is expected to weaken on its northerly course across the [...]

As detailed in Jeff Master’s Wunderblog post, African tropical wave 99L shows strong potential for developing into this year’s first tropical storm in the Atlantic.  Most models place wave 99L as a tropical depression within 4 days. Read Dr. Master’s full blog entry.  Satellite images taken by NASA on August 9th.

We are now entering the middle of the 2009 Atlantic Hurricane Season and its worth evaluating the prospects for the remainder of this year.  To date, there have been exactly zero named storms in the Atlantic.  That is fairly unusual.  In fact, as Jeff Masters points out in his Wunder Blog, “It has been 17 [...]