hurricane katia

The 2011 Atlantic Hurricane Season is really beginning to hot up and there are currently three named storms to keep an eye on. Similar to last year though, it’s hard to tell what, if any real impact they will have on the U.S. The 2011 season is certainly proving to be very active, as had […]

Tropical storm Lee hit the Gulf Coast states over the weekend bringing winds and extremely heavy rains to many areas from Texas through to the Florida panhandle. Louisiana seems to have taken the brunt of the storm with some reports of more than 15 inches of rain in certain areas causing severe flooding.

Colorado State University Department of Atmospheric Sciences has issued its latest two-week forecast for hurricane activity in the Atlantic. They predict an active period in the fortnight to come. One reason for this is the way they calculate activity using their Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) index to denote activity levels. They say that Katia, which […]

Tropical storm Katia has now become hurricane Katia. The second hurricane of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season, hurricane Katia originally formed way over to the east near the Cape Verde islands and is making her way slowly westwards. Forecast models diverge considerably on her eventual destination, with some showing Katia curving northwards to potentially threaten […]

Tropical storm Katia is currently in the mid-Atlantic with maximum sustained windspeeds of 65mph. A fairly large storm already, with tropical storm windspeeds extending up to 85 miles from the centre, Katia is forecast to become a hurricane within the next few hours. It’s likely that the next advisory from the National Hurricane Centre will […]