tropical storm

The fourth named Atlantic tropical storm of the 2009 season has formed today in the Atlantic to the east of the Bahamas. Tropical storm Danny is currently moving towards the west-northwest and carrying sustained winds of 45mph with higher gusts. Danny is expected to strengthen over the next few days and could threaten the east […]

Hurricane Bill is continuing it’s journey through the atlantic, picking up speed and becoming more powerful all the time. Currently a category 4 storm Bill is carrying sustained winds of 135mph with higher gusts. Bill has become a very large storm with hurricane force winds extending up to 85 miles from the centre. So it’s […]

Hurricane Bill, now the only surviving storm in the Atlantic after Claudette hit Florida and Ana fizzled out, has now strengthened into a category 2 hurricane pasking winds of 100mph with higher gusts. Bill is on a track to come close to Bermuda on Friday or Saturday. Predicted to strengthen further, Bill could become a […]

Tropical storm Claudette formed yesterday in the Gulf of Mexico just inside the Florida panhandle where sea temperatures have risen recently making the gulf much more susceptible to storm formation. Claudette made landfall a few hours ago near Fort Walton Beach in Florida, carrying winds of 50mph plus and dropping as much as 10 inches […]

Tropical storm Ana is continuing her journey west across the Atlantic with little change in strength so far. Still carrying sustained winds of only 40mph she is heading for the Antilles and beyond that the Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico and Cuba. Earlier we wrote that another storm could be hot on her heels and sure […]

So Tropical Storm Ana took a little longer than we predicted earlier this week, but finally tropical depression 2 has now strengthened enough (after having almost fizzled out) to be classified as the first tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season. Currently way out in the Atlantic and packing winds of 40mph, Tropical Storm Ana […]

A little later than normal, and a whole two and a half months after the first depression, Tropical Depression 2 has formed in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean. Moving towards the west at 13mph, TD2 currently has maximum sustained winds of 35mph. It’s expected to strengthen more today and should be Tropical Storm Ana before the […]

Atlantic tropical storm and hurricane season 2009 is currently nowhere to be seen. After the busy storm seasons of the last few years, 2009 has yet to generate as much as a single named storm (one tropical depression so far). This must be pleasing the reinsurance industry as they hope for a year with minimal […]

The UK Met Office has released it’s forecast for the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season. Interestingly they have come forth with the tamest prediction I have seen for many years. The Met Office have predicted only six named tropical storms in the 2009 season. That’s lower than any other recognised forecaster and is less than half […]

You would have thought after the last hurricane season that oil companies with offshore rigs or refineries in the Gulf of Mexico would have been wise to the dangers of not being covered in time for the tropical storm and hurricane season. It seems that the same coverage problems that came to light last year […]