Category Archives: Gulf Investigations
Unsettled Gulf Next Week?
Now we all know that models are nothing more than numerical predictions and they get less accurate the farther out we go. But there are some things we can look to when determining whether a given model output has any merit. For instance, when several of the major models have the same or similar outputs, […]
Gulf activity associated with approaching east coast front
The northern gulf is active again, especially from the Mississippi River to the Florida peninsula There has been some westward expansion this afternoon, but the weather is still well west of Berwick Bay. The area is actually being triggered by a frontal boundary north of the area, with some upper level support from a mid- […]
Gulf Remains Unsettled
The northern Gulf of Mexico remains disturbed but there is still little or no threat of any tropical development over the next five days. There has been some persistence of disturbed weather and there had been some consolidation in the northwestern Gulf over the past 24 hours. However, with the entire northern Gulf once again […]
Gulf Unsettled
Got an inquiry or two this morning about the cloud activity in the Gulf of Mexico. The short answer is there is nothing to be worried about. The enhanced convection currently showing up on satellite imagery is mostly related to stalled out weak frontal boundary extending from the Florida Panhandle to about 50 miles south […]