Category Archives: Gulf Investigations
99L Lives to Fight Another Day
Just a short note tonight as not much has really changed since yesterday, other than 99L continues to fight for life. It is more impressive today as thunderstorms have continued to regenerate near the center, though are not yet sustaining themselves. Models are pretty much unchanged for the most part, just waiting to see if, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Models Still Show Gulf Storm
A quick update on the system shown in yesterday’s models. The latest run of the ECMWF shows the system in a bit more clarity. It is basically predicting a hurricane approaching the coast of central or western Louisiana by the end of next week. Do not worry so much about the path this far out […]