Suddenly lots to discuss, starting with Hurricane Tammy. Tammy is sweeping through the Leeward Islands this morning, and with the somewhat stronger winds and somewhat westerly shift in track, may top $1 Billion in impacts …
Rain and flash flooding might extend as far west as the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico this Sunday. Here are NHC’s Key Messages regarding Hurricane Tammy (en Español: Mensajes Claves). In the east Pacific, Hurricane Norma is making landfall near Cabo San Lucas today, it too is causing some disruption and damage …
NHC’s discussion is here: Key Messages regarding Hurricane Norma.
As if the Israel-Hamas war wasn’t enough for the region, Cyclone Five (soon to be Cyclone Tej) is headed to the coast of Yemen. This is starting to disrupt traffic through Suez, as it is crossing the outlet of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, a major traffic route …
Storms making landfall in Oman and Yemen are not a rare as you might think, happening every few years. They can cause a lot of flood damage – rain in a desert environment tends to run off violently, and infrastructure in the way tends to be wiped out from the torrents. Of course Yemen has been suffering through a civil war for many years, so this won’t help the suffering of the average person caught up in that conflict.