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…

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?

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 common during the peak part of hurricane season. [...]

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 upwards (Figure 2.) On average, we can [...]

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 tropical storm will form off the coast [...]

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 currently brewing, 2 in the Atlantic and [...]