Tropical Cyclones Typhoon Danas landfall on Taiwan; Chantal lands in South Carolina 6 Jul 20256 Jul 2025 There are two landfalls in progress this morning. Tropical Storm Chantal made landfall on the upper South Carolina coast this morning. Typhoon Danas will make landfall later this afternoon US…
Doomwatch!… Quick Holiday Update (4 July 2025) 4 Jul 20254 Jul 2025 Update: as of 5pm now a tropical depression, and NHC has started advisories. The system spawning from a stalled frontal boundary off the Frogmore (SE Atlantic) coast continues to evolve.…
Doomwatch!… Doomwatch 13 June 2025 13 Jun 2025 First, the elephant in the living room, the Israeli attack on Iran: Otherwise, no comment. On to a marginally safer topic. Tropical Storm Wutip (WP012025) is skirting the west coast…
Doomwatch!… Wutip threatens Hainan (12 June 2025) 12 Jun 2025 Tropical Storm Wutip should make landfall on Hainan Island, China in a few hours. It's sunset in that part of the world, here is the view from the Himawari 9…
Doomwatch!… Atlantic Doomwatch: Revenge of the Blobs 1 Nov 20241 Nov 2024 TL;DR: Kong Rey hit Taiwan and is now brushing the mainland provinces of Fujian and Zhejiang as a much diminished tropical storm. NHC is starting the last month* of hurricane…
Tropical Cyclones PTC8, Bebinca make landfall today (16 Sept 2024) 16 Sep 2024 TL;DR: Bebinca made landfall in China overnight as a Saffir Simpson Category one storm. A non-tropical low with tropical storm force winds is making landfall in South Carolina this afternoon…
Tropical Cyclones Bebinca to hit Shanghai, blob off the Southeast US Coast (15 Sept 2024) 15 Sep 202415 Sep 2024 TL;DR: Bebinca expected to cause some damage and disruption to Shanghai but should not be catastrophic. Gordon is sticking it to the fish. Blob off of SEUS may or may…
Tropical Cyclones Busy in the Tropics: Francine, TD7, Bebinca (12 Sep 24) 12 Sep 202412 Sep 2024 Two systems in the Atlantic, the rapidly falling apart Francine, and the slowly developing but not threatening TD7, along with two boring and one sort of interesting disturbances. Bebinca in…
Tropical Cyclones Still “meh” in the Atlantic 6 Sep 20246 Sep 2024 Yes, lots of yellow blobs: two are actually invest areas, and one even has tropical storm force winds, but none have over 20% chance of development according to NHC. AL99…
Doomwatch!… Typhoon Yagi, Atlantic still not terrifying (5 Sept 2024) 4 Sep 2024 TL;DR: Typhoon Yagi is about two days away from potentially severe impacts on Leizhou and Zhanjiang, China. The Atlantic stubbornly refuses to terrorize the denizens of the US, threatening the…
