Tuesday, April 2, 2013

An early look ahead at Hurricane Season



Superb blog material... Levi Cowan does an amazing job talking about tropical weather and what we might expect from the 2013 Hurricane Season:


http://www.tropicaltidbits.com/blog/2013/03/17/2013-atlantic-hurricane-season-likely-to-be-more-active-than-normal/


The skinny:

Active/above average season...

Perhaps a solid chance for some major hurricanes making landfall in the USA

More powerful storms than the generally weak tropical storms/cat 1 hurricanes we've seen over the past two years..


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We'll have to wait and see what happens, but I do enjoy these long-range forecasts...



2012 map full of weak storms...



Interestingly, Levi is using 1996 as an analog year for 2013 (similar patterns in Feb-Mar of that year to Feb-Mar of this year) - which brought this monster:




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