Weather Hazards Labor Day Weekend Update 31 Aug 2025 Weather is mostly boring for this Labor Day Weekend, but the east coast still has a lot of rip currents and some wind going on from the front stalled just…
Remote Sensing… Nongfa makes landfall in Vietnam; Coastal GA/SC rain; ZOMG WHAT IS THAT? 30 Aug 202530 Aug 2025 Tropical Storm Nongfa is making landfall in Vietnam this morning. Ordinarily wouldn't be too big of a deal, but this is the same area hit a few days ago with…
Uncategorized Earth today 29 Aug 202529 Aug 2025 Still watching TD20 in the West Pacific as it approaches Vietnam as a weak tropical storm, but otherwise no hurricane/typhoon concerns. So here are visible band views earth from six…
Tropical Cyclones Tropics are relatively quiet 28 Aug 2025 TL;DR: Depression in the West Pacific is about it, remnants of Juliette may bring rain to northwestern Mexico and the US southwest. Moving from east to west, the Atlantic is…
Geophysics… Solar eruptions, our satellite constellation, and redistricting 26 Aug 2025 The sun is still very unsettled, and a new active area is rotating in to view. Although most people think of the GOES satellites as being weather satellites, they are…
Tropical Cyclones Typhoon Kaijiki slams Vietnam 25 Aug 202525 Aug 2025 TL;DR: Typhoon Kaijiki is making landfall in Vietnam, stronger than forecast with impacts likely over $1 Billion in the country. Elsewhere storms only of interest to fish (and fish related…
Weather Hazards Kaijiki headed to Vietnam, Flooding across GA/SC coast 24 Aug 2025 In the hurricane/typhoon world, the Atlantic is calming down after the Erin passage. Tropical Storm Fernand remains disorganized and far enough from Bermuda that the National Hurricane Center did not…
Climate… Has there been more rain than usual? (23 Aug 25) 23 Aug 2025 I've received several questions about the rain totals this so far this month/year, asking if it's more than usual. Last year I wrote a post about extremes that you should…
Tropical Cyclones… Coastal GA/SC Rain, Tropics update (23 Aug 25) 23 Aug 2025 TL;DR: Two disturbances in the Atlantic and a tropical storm in the South China Sea. Lots of rain in the Frogmore Metroplex with more on the way. NHC has stopped…
Doomwatch!… Erin Exiting, Invests, Frogmore area flood risk 22 Aug 2025 As the sun rises over Vinland (aka Newfoundland), Erin is just offshore and rapidly heading northeast, no longer entirely tropical in nature ... At this point the only remaining risk…