quote:Gulf Coast states were in for a third day of rough weather as Tropical Storm Cindy sloshed ashore early Thursday in southwestern Louisiana.
Already blamed for one death in Alabama, Cindy was expected to keep churning seas and spin off bands of severe weather from eastern Texas to northwestern Florida.
The storm’s maximum sustained winds had decreased to near 40 mph (64 kph) Thursday morning with additional weakening expected, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.]Cindy sloshes ashore in Louisiana[/url]
Gulf Coast states were in for a third day of rough weather as Tropical Storm Cindy sloshed ashore early Thursday in southwestern Louisiana.
Already blamed for one death in Alabama, Cindy was expected to keep churning seas and spin off bands of severe weather from eastern Texas to northwestern Florida.
The storm’s maximum sustained winds had decreased to near 40 mph (64 kph) Thursday morning with additional weakening expected, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
A boy on an Alabama beach was struck and killed Wednesday by a log washed ashore by the storm. Baldwin County Sheriff’s Capt. Stephen Arthur said witnesses reported the 10-year-old boy from Missouri was standing outside a condominium in Fort Morgan when the log, carried in by a large wave, struck him. Arthur said the youth was vacationing with his family from the St. Louis area and that relatives and emergency workers tried to revive him. He wasn’t immediately identified.
It was the first known fatality from Cindy. Otherwise, the storm was blamed for widespread coastal highway flooding, rough seas and scattered reports of power outages and building damage caused by high winds. There were numerous reports of waterspouts and short-lived tornadoes spawned by the storm.
National Weather Service forecasters estimated the storm had dumped anywhere from 2 to 10 inches (50 to 250 millimeters) of rain on various spots along the Gulf Coast from southern Louisiana to the Florida panhandle as of Wednesday. And more rain was on the way.
Alek Krautmann of the National Weather Service in Slidell, Louisiana, said Thursday’s pattern would likely be much like Wednesday’s: Bands of intermittent, sometimes heavy rain spinning onto the coast.
In Gulfport, Mississippi, Kathleen Bertucci said heavy rainfall Wednesday sent about 10 inches of water into her business, Top Shop, which sells and installs granite countertops.
“It’s pretty disgusting, but I don’t have flood insurance because they took me out of the flood zone,” said Bertucci, whose store is near a bayou. “We’re just trying to clean everything up and hope it doesn’t happen again.”
In nearby Biloxi, a waterspout moved ashore Wednesday morning. Harrison County Emergency Management Director Rupert Lacy said there were no injuries but fences, trees and power lines were damaged.
quote:After dumping up to a foot of rain in Mississippi, Tropical Depression Cindy continued to bring heavy rains along its path on Friday morning as it slogged north-northeast at 14 mph over Arkansas. The 5 am EDT advisory from NOAA’s Weather Prediction Center gave Cindy top winds of 20 mph, and predicted that the storm would slowly weaken and turn more to the northeast on Friday night, entering Western Tennessee and Central Kentucky. The main threat from the storm is heavy rain, particularly over Louisiana and Southeast Arkansas, where 2 – 4” of additional rain may cause flash flooding.
Cindy made landfall near the Texas/Louisiana border at approximately 4 am EDT Thursday, June 22, as a minimal tropical storm with sustained winds of 40 mph. The storm is being blamed for one death, a 10-year-old boy who died of injuries suffered when Cindy's storm surge washed a large log onto the shore and struck him, according to the AP. On Thursday, the storm spawned an EF2 tornado that left damage in areas southwest of Birmingham, Alabama, and injured at least four people.
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quote:Friday marks the end of a record-calm year for tropical cyclone activity in the Southern Hemisphere. A cyclone “year” extends from July 1 to June 30 south of the equator (this is because cyclones peak in the warm season, which straddles adjacent calendar years in the Southern Hemisphere). For the 2016-17 year, this entire half of the world racked up just 45% of the accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) that it sees in a typical year, based on the climatological period 1981-2010. ACE incorporates a tropical cyclone’s lifespan as well as its peak winds.
“It's pretty remarkable that an entire hemisphere can have less than half of their normal ACE in a season,” noted Phil Klotzbach (Colorado State University) in an email. The previous record-low Southern Hemisphere ACE for a July-to-June year was 54% of average, in 2008-09.
The large-scale rising motion needed for sustained tropical cyclone action was often in the wrong place during the southern summer of 2016-17. The strongest areas of rising motion across the southern tropics and subtropics were located over land, across southern Africa and western Australia. Meanwhile, downward motion predominated at these latitudes across the South Indian and Southwest Pacific Oceans, where most of the Southern Hemisphere’s tropical cyclones develop. “A good way to kill a tropical cyclone season is to have upward motion over land!” noted Klotzbach.
Below are the Southern Hemisphere stats for 2016-17, together with the numbers recorded in a typical year. The data comes from Klotzbach’s real-time roundup page for global tropical cyclone activity.
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quote:Don
A Tropical Storm Warning is up for the island of Grenada, and Tropical Storm Watches are posted for Barbados, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and St. Lucia as Tropical Storm Don cruises west at 17 mph towards the Lesser Antilles. On Monday afternoon, an Air Force hurricane hunter aircraft found a tight closed circulation and surface winds of 40 mph, prompting the National Hurricane Center to begin issuing advisories for the fourth named storm of the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season. By 8 pm EDT Monday, these winds were up to 45 mph.
On Monday evening, Don was enjoying light wind shear of 5 - 10 knots and warm sea surface temperatures (SSTs) near 28.5°C (83°F)--about 1°F above the seasonal norm. However, development was being slowed by dry air, thanks to a presence of the Saharan Air Layer (SAL) just to the north. The relative humidity at mid-levels of the atmosphere was a marginal 65%. Satellite images showed that Don was small storm, with only a modest amount of heavy thunderstorms.
Forecast for Don
Don will continue to move west to west-northwest at 15 – 20 mph through Wednesday, which will bring the core of the storm over the southern Lesser Antilles Islands on Tuesday evening through Wednesday morning. Dry air will continue to interfere with development, and the 18Z Monday run of the SHIPS model predicted that relative humidity at mid-levels of the atmosphere would drop to 55 – 60% by Wednesday. With wind shear expected to remain low to moderate through Wednesday, there is the potential that Don could strengthen to have top winds in the 55 – 60 mph range as it moves through the Lesser Antilles. On Thursday, when Don will be in the Eastern Caribbean, wind shear will rise to a high 25 knots, and the 70 members of the 12Z Monday European and GFS model forecasts predict that Don will weaken and meet its demise by Friday. However, Don could potentially affect the ABC Islands and make landfall in northwestern Venezuela late in the week before dying.
Net even van mogen meegenieten. Ik zit nu in Taipei. De platen van het plafond in het station vlogen tegen een groepje mensen aan toen de schuifdeuren open gingen en er echt een enorm harde windvlaag binnen kwam. Geloof niet dat ze verwondingen hadden gelukkig.quote:
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