And Now For Something Completely Different! (Monty Python) For about 5 years I've been rambling on (and on and on) about tropical storms...

I wouldn't want to have had a sun-bathing beach vacation planned in the Bahamas this past week! Not only did they get lashings of rain w...

Our 'little' blobette is in the Caribbean at about 66W, 17N, south of Puerto Rico and the VIs. And it's growing. In my humble op...

Woo hoo... we have a blobette! :) I've been watching this system as it nonchalantly crossed the Atlantic over the past week, trying to d...

I thought I'd better write in case you thought I'd fallen asleep! There's a blob out there in the Atlantic but it's unlikely...

As I thought, clarity has been achieved today... the Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf are all clear. This is my last entry on this now non-exist...

Not much change in the Blob... it's moved northwards since yesterday of course, with circulation and convection now in the Gulf (in the ...

Has everyone got their hurricane supplies ready? I'm ready... wine, check, ice cream, check, pets, check, umm... what else were we suppo...

There's a blob hanging out in the Caribbean today. In case you couldn't tell from the subject of this post. It's mostly a lot o...

Hello my friends, Welcome to the Official Start of the 2009 Atlantic Hurricane Season... and to paraphrase a friend of mine (JB): "Hurr...

This blobette is toast. Wind shear picked up and combined with the cool waters it was a bit too much for the system to develop further. If o...

Great googliemooglies! You know that feeling you get when you are having a lovely dream and the alarm goes off (too early)? Yeah? Well welco...

Hello my friends... Yes, it's the official end of the 2008 Atlantic Hurricane Season. Hurray hurray. And Phew. What a season, hey? To su...

She rapidly deteriorated after landfall in Cuba because of wind shear plus land interaction. By this morning there was no convection over Cu...

Paloma made landfall in southern Cuba a short while ago (between 6-6.20pm EST) as a strong cat 3 storm with estimated winds of 125 mph (cat ...

!?$$?!?*#!!?@# I expect a few people out there thinking or saying the same thing about this system - maybe in a different language though. T...

Bother bother bother. She's still intensifying. Bother - those poor little Cayman Islands! They're barely above sea level as it is. ...

As expected, she's been steadily intensifying and was officially named a hurricane last night. With nothing to stop her from intensifyin...

Quick update: She's been slowly intensifying all day, and now has winds of just below 65 mph (TS: 39-73mph) and central pressure of 994 ...

I know, it's difficult to imagine there's a Tropical Storm out there, when here in Tropical Florida it is a chilly ~75 deg F... brrr...