Goodbye Tropical Storm Iselle, Hello Hurricane Julio

As Iselle approached the Hawaiian Islands late last, hurricane warnings were downgraded and the storm made landfall as Tropical Storm Iselle. The tropical storm made landfall on the eastern coast of the Big Island earlier today at 7:30am CST with max wind speeds rated at 60mph. Check out some of the wind gusts recorded across […]

Pacific Ocean Tropics Update

The Pacific Ocean tropics are lighting up with tropical disturbances. There is now a line, or train, of tropical disturbances stretching across the Pacific Ocean. It’s quite an incredible sight as conditions are favorable for development for some of these to become typhoons and tropical storms. The GFS model illustrates these tropical waves very well […]

Tropical Storm Arthur Is Here

We have been watching Invest 91L pretty closely over the past few days, and this morning this low was able to strengthen into the first named Tropical Storm of the Atlantic hurricane season…Tropical Storm Arthur.  This occurred soon after 91L was upgraded to a Tropical Depression last night. A Tropical Storm Watch is now in effect for […]

Tropical Update

Arthur Watch…Day 3 The big question in the tropics this week has become whether or not we will see this area of low pressure currently named Invest 91L become a tropical storm. IF it were to do so, this would become the first named storm of the season: Tropical Storm Arthur. The Hurricane Hunters flew […]