Not a lot to say today, I’m busy with the ongoing Middle East crisis and of course the ongoing Ukraine situation, but in the natural disaster world, especially tropical cyclones, things are somewhat quiet. Decaying Kiko (Key messages regarding Tropical Storm Kiko (en Español: Mensajes Claves)) is passing the western Hawaiian islands, only a wave problem. On IR this morning it’s not recognizable as a storm any more …
There is an invest area offshore of Central America that will become a storm in a day or so, and parallel the coast. Both the Atlantic and West Pacific are quiet at the moment, but the Indian Ocean has some action, with a tropical depression (TD3S) and two invest areas:
There are no storms near Australia. But saying there are no storms there is an excuse to post the IR image of Australia from the Japanese Meteorological Agency satellite Himawari 9:
There is still some chance of shallow coastal flooding along the GA/SC coast this morning, but the threat (such as it was) is lower
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