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11/12/2024, 1:25 pm EST

GFS And ECM Agreeable to “Sara” Striking Southwest Florida Middle Next Week As Hurricane

Both the 12Z GFS and ECM project a tropical cyclone generating in the Caribbean Sea later this week, meandering while intensifying for a few days, and turning northwest into the southeast Gulf early next week before a right turn to southwest Florida by middle of next week. Next Wednesday, the GFS indicates a category-3 major hurricane rapidly approaching the southwest Florida Coast.
11/12/2024, 6:29 am EST

The Super-hot Australia Pattern Eases

The past 30 days are scorching hot across Australia, the hottest since 2015. However, "weeklies" forecasts from ECMWF generate rain-producing upper troughs the second half of November helping to dissipate the widespread hot regime.
11/11/2024, 8:52 am EST

Late Season Surge of Northwest Pacific Tropical Cyclones

The Northwest Pacific tropical cyclone activity has recovered to near normal for the season featuring 23 tropical storms, 13 hurricanes, and 7 intense hurricanes. A late season surge in activity features 4 systems now including Tropical Storm Yinxing heading for North Vietnam, Typhoon Toraji departing the Philippines, WP27 forecast to become a typhoon heading northwest possibly toward Taiwan, and Man-Yi forecast to become a major typhoon later this week.