Tropical Storm Isaac Gathers Steam, Approaches Keys
The storm is expected to be at or near hurricane strength, with sustained winds of at least 74 mph, when it makes its closest pass to the Florida Keys on Sunday evening.… Read More
Tropical Storm Isaac Remains Weak, Forecast to Intensify
Tropical Storm Isaac is still on track for a rendezvous with Florida, or another Gulf Coastal state, but it may spare Tampa, the site of the Republican National Convention, from a direct hit. However, even a sideswipe from a hurricane can spell trouble for a city as vulnerable to storm surge as Tampa is.… Read More
Isaac On Track for Florida, May Disrupt RNC Convention
Based on this forecast, tropical storm watches and warnings along with hurricane watches have been issued for islands including Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, and the National Hurricane Center is warning residents of Haiti and Cuba to pay close attention to the storm.… Read More
Tropical Storm Isaac Forms, Could Threaten U.S.
A tropical depression could soon become tropical storm Isaac, and may impact then Republican Convention in Tampa.… Read More
NOAA’s Hurricane Forecast Calls for More Active Season
We’re now halfway through the 2012 hurricane season, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has updated its projections for overall storm activity. By the time the season ends on November 30, NOAA reports we should see a total of 12-17 named storms (that is, storms with sustained winds of more than 39 mph), of which 5-8 will… Read More
Ernesto Marches On, May Be a Hurricane Soon
Tropical Storm Ernesto, which was merely a tropical depression Thursday, has now crossed from the Atlantic Ocean into the Caribbean Sea, where it’s likely to spend the next four or five days moving in a west by northwesterly direction, aiming generally toward the tip of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. (Here’s a radar movie that shows it passing over St… Read More
Developing Tropical System Headed for Caribbean
For now it’s known only as Tropical Depression 5, or TD5 — an organized group of thunderstorms, located several hundred miles northwest of South America and making its way due west, toward the Windward Islands that mark the boundaries of the Caribbean Sea. Within 48 hours, however, TD5 could tighten to become Tropical Storm Ernesto, the fifth named… Read More
Times Review: ‘Global Weirdness’ is a Winner
“That is, it’s a book, written in the kind of plain English of which Strunk and White would approve, that lays out what we know about climate change while hewing to the facts and taking great care to avoid bias and hysteria,… Read More
