Category Archives: Atlantic Hurricane News

News of significant storms in the Atlantic Basin

99L Update Delayed

I will be updating the progress of 99L today but will hold off until later this afternoon for a couple of reasons. First, 99L has shown signs of life over the past few hours with big storms starting to go up around the center. I want to see of these persist, as there is still […]

99L is a Fighter: Next 36 hours make the difference!

Here is the Thursday update on the “little system that could,” good ole Invest 99L. If anything, the system looks worse than it did yesterday at this time. But there are some subtle signs things may be about to change. First off there is now a low-level closed circulation obvious on the visible satellite images. […]

Invest 99L is Definitely a Paradox

Since I have had a couple of inquiries about Investigation 99L, the system currently passing through the northern Antilles, I guess this is as good a time as any to initiate coverage. I will apologize right now for a long post, but this is a complex system. Here is what we know as of noon […]

Subtropical Noname

There is an old saying that if it looks like a duck, waddles like a duck and quacks like a duck; it is probably a duck. Well such is the case this morning. Sitting 140 nm southeast of Berwick Bay this morning is a low pressure area with a central pressure of 994 mb, 29.35 […]

A Saving Grace in Gulf? Or Not?

On one hand, the daunted ECMWF European model has finally backed off on spinning up a storm in the southwest Gulf early next week. It has not abandoned the idea by any means, but is having trouble deciding where the energy might coalesce into a tropical system. Several other models are sticking with something in the […]