As expected, he's a cat 1 hurricane, with winds of about 85-90 mph (cat 1: 74-95mph), central pressure 962mb, located somewhere around 2...

Just a quick note... Tropical Storm Alex is currently centered somewhere around 21.7N, 91.9W with winds near 70mph, making him a strong Trop...

I made the mistake of watching some US tv news about tropical storms. Oh dear. "Tropical Storm Alex MAY be weakening over land"? O...

Formerly known as the Caribbean Blob, this is now officially a weak Tropical Depression which means it has closed circulation and winds of u...

I'm a tad busy the next few days, so this is not a good time for a blob to even think about developing! Huh. I'll have a word with M...

If the season has to be busy, can it please be full of blobs like this? :-) It created a small ruckus and is now just happily twirling away,...

"Bit of a busy day today, I'm afraid. Distressingly little time for sloth or idleness." (Oscar Wilde) :-) So, fortunately for...

"Here we go, here we go, here we go"... a classic football (soccer) chant in honour of the World Cup (topical AND tropical - aren...

Hello my friends! Well, here we are at the Official Start of the 2010 Atlantic Hurricane Season... in which there will be a hundred and six ...

Beep beep beep, the sirens have gone off: we have a Pacific interloper in the Caribbean! I don't think this one counts for Atlantic stor...

Hello my friends :-) Don't Panic! (phew, got that Douglas Adams quote in early this year). No tropical storms. Yet. ;-) But, alas, I had...

Here we are again my friends, at the culmination of another Atlantic Hurricane season. And you are still reading this blog?!? Goodness me, y...

Ida made landfall earlier today as a weak Tropical Storm with winds of about 50 mph, and very little convection. She then merged with that f...

Ida behaved pretty much as I expected. Good girl! After my entry yesterday she was officially upgraded to a cat 2, and today as she crossed ...

Well there's a couple of bits of good news for you all in this entry. First, Ida's circulation (technically the vorticity) is beginn...

I am pretty sure it should be Hurricane Ida by now, but the cautious NHC are still calling her a tropical storm. Wind speeds are 'offici...

Q: What's this storm going to do? A: I daknow! Hee hee. I spent ALL day thinking of that one. OK, I won't give up my day job yet the...

Oh dear, what a palava! I can just see some of you rolling your eyes when you see the latest track and the apparent sharp right turn Ida is ...

I'm going to go easy on the NHC today because they do, after all, have a tough job. Of course, if I believed Ida was still a hurricane b...

Hey! Thought it was over? Think again. The '09 hurricane season, in true Monty Python style, is running around saying "I'm not ...