New Insights on Hurricane Intensity, Pollution Transport
Researchers study currents that fuel hurricanes and transport pollutants to coastal beaches.
Typhoon Chan-hom Makes Landfall in China, Bears Down on Shanghai
Chan-hom made landfall in Zhoushan city, Zhejiang Province at 4:40 p.m local time Saturday. This is the strongest landfalling storm to hit within 200 miles of Shanghai in at least 35 years.
Tropical Storm Bill Bears Down on Texas Coast
According to NOAA’s forecast and advisory, the combination of a storm surge and the tide will cause normally dry areas near the coast to be flooded by risingwaters.
Hurricane Blanca
Hurricane Blanca, the second named storm of the eastern Pacific season, alternated between interesting and alarming, dynamic and stagnant in the first week of June 2015. The storm set a record as the earliest second hurricane in an eastern Pacific season. The west coast of Mexico should prepare for a battering this summer into the fall.
Hurricane Blanca Heading Towards Mexico’s Beaches
Hurricane Blanca weakened to a category 2 storm off Mexico’s Pacific coast on Thursday but it is forecast to strengthen as it heads toward tourist resorts at the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
Hurricane Forecasting Evolving with New Storm Surge Products, Upgraded Modeling
With the new hurricane season comes a new prototype storm surge watch/warning graphic from NOAA’s National Hurricane Center, intended to highlight areas along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts of the US that have a significant risk of life-threatening inundation by storm surge from a tropical cyclone.
Decade-Old Gulf Oil Spill Could Last 100 Years
A decade-old oil leak where an offshore platform toppled during a hurricane could continue spilling crude into the Gulf of Mexico for a century or more if left unchecked, according to government estimates obtained by The Associated Press that provide new details about the scope of the problem.
Tropical Storm Warning Expanded for Carolinas as Ana Strengthens
Meteorologists expanded a tropical storm warning for part of the North Carolina and South Caroline coastline on Friday, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center. The first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season formed off the South Carolina coast on Thursday — nearly a month before the season officially begins.
Cyclone Noul Approaches The Philippines
The storm was still intensifying due to very warm ocean conditions. Winds were predicted to reach 120 knots (category 4) late on May 9.