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…
Administrative… Blobwatch continues (3 Sept 24) 3 Sep 2024 According to Nicholas, at least in the Atlantic we are now at threat condition "elevated meh" ... An elevated level of "meh" means he will roll over and look at…
Tropical Cyclones Typhoon Gaemi mainland China landfall 25 Jul 202425 Jul 2024 Gaemi is making landfall this morning in Fujian province as a minimal typhoon or tropical storm. The satellite analysis from CIMSS this morning (night in China) shows a rapidly weakening…
Economics… Typhoon Gaemi landfall on Taiwan today; how impact estimates are made 24 Jul 202424 Jul 2024 Typhoon Gaemi (WP052024) is making landfall on Taiwan over the next 24 hours. It is an intense typhoon, estimated winds by the US Joint Typhoon Warning Center of 125 knots.…
Economics… Quick update on Typhoon Gamei 23 Jul 2024 The track and intensity forecast for Typhoon Gamei has shifted significantly and now lies directly over norther Taiwan, with the eye wall forecast to pass over Taipei in about 36…
