Written by: Daniel Kerr on September 1, 2010.Folks, we have 3 storms of tropical storm force or greater churning in the Atlantic. While its too early to say how much work will spring from these three its safe to say that the 2010 Atlantic season has just turned the volume up to 11…

Written by: Daniel Kerr on September 1, 2010.Follow Earl through the lens of Stormpulse…be sure to turn “Forecast Models” to the “On” position.

Written by: Daniel Kerr on August 30, 2010.From Jeff Master’s Wunderground, the Top 10 Costliest Weather Disasters since 1980.  Number one, Hurricane Katrina.  Numbers two and three may surprise you -  drought.  I’m interested to know if one can buy a rider for drought on a farm/ranch or crop policy?

Written by: Daniel Kerr on August 23, 2010.The slumbering Kraken of the Atlantic is beginning to stir.  Near the Cape Verdes Islands off the west coast of Africa, Tropical Storm Danielle portents that the 2010 Hurricane season’s most dangerous formations are awakening.  Per Jeff Master’s blog:
Danielle is a classic “Cape Verdes”-type of storm [...]

Written by: Daniel Kerr on August 18, 2010.While the Atlantic Hurricane Season officially begins on June 1st, today historically marks the beginning of the most intense period of tropical activity.  This year appears to be no different.  Per Dr. Jeff Masters:
August 18 historically marks the point where Atlantic hurricane activity makes a major spike [...]

Written by: Daniel Kerr on August 16, 2010.According to Jeff Masters:
All of the major models have been predicting a major pattern shift in the global atmosphere late this week, which leads to breakdown of the Russian heat wave and the start of the Cape Verdes hurricane season. The models have been consistently predicting a [...]

Written by: Daniel Kerr on August 10, 2010.According to Dr. Jeff Masters at Wunderground, the July sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic were the hottest in recorded history.  That type of energy is what accelerates the heart beat of climatologists across the country as we enter the teeth of hurricane season 2010.
3 storms are [...]

Written by: Daniel Kerr on June 29, 2010.While Hurricanes Gustav and Ike soaked up most of the attention (and deservedly so) in 2008, there was another hurricane that hit the U.S. coast that year – Hurricane Dolly.
As soon-to-be Hurricane Alex is forecasted, Dolly made landfall near Brownsville early in the season (July 23rd as [...]

Written by: Daniel Kerr on June 25, 2010.While still only June (well before the active period of a typical hurricane season) we are likely to experience our first Tropical Depression – named Alex – within the next 24 hours.  Dr. Jeff Masters currently gives Alex a 60% chance of obtaining Tropical Storm status and [...]

Written by: Daniel Kerr on June 1, 2010.There’s a neat tool FoxNews just put out on the oil spill and the tracking history of hurricanes.  My favorite feature, however, is under the “How storms destroy” tab where you see Category 1 through 5 Hurricane damage simulated on a home.  Being a professed land-lubber I [...]

Written by: Daniel Kerr on June 1, 2010.2009 marked the Atlantic’s most quiet Hurricane season in some 17 years.  Don’t expect the same for 2010.  From Dr. Grey at Colorado State to Accuweather’s Joe Bastardi, pundits are calling for a hyperactive hurricane season in the Atlantic basin.  Various climatological & oceanic factors have aligned [...]

Written by: Daniel Kerr on May 28, 2010.Citing a dangerous concurrence of climatological & oceanic factors, various experts are predicting that the 2010 will be very if not hyperactive (full article).  For readers of this blog, that won’t come as a surprise – the only update being that as we approach the eve of [...]

Written by: Daniel Kerr on April 26, 2010.This weekend’s massive tornado affecting Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama was particularly destructive and has left parts of the south completely ravaged.  For comparison, surveyors of the storms damage estimate the tornado had sustained winds (in some areas) of 15o to 167 mph – equivalent to a Category [...]

Written by: Daniel Kerr on March 11, 2010.Following up on our previous post reporting Accuweather’s Joe Bastardi’s forecast of a “nasty” 2010 hurricane season, Mr. Bastardi has released his specific prediction for this year to include 16 to 18 tropical storms.  He further predicts 2 to 3 “major” hurricanes to directly affect U.S. coastlines.  [...]

Written by: Daniel Kerr on February 24, 2010.Accuweather is forewarning that Thursday and Friday’s winter storm in the northeast U.S. will supersede the traditional category of blizzard and enter the realm of the mythical “snowacane” (blizzardus hurricanus?).  Apparently, its going to get bad.  Click here to read the full story.
At some point, these storms [...]