Posts Tagged ‘Tropical Storm’

  At 5 p.m. PT, midnight UTC, Wednesday, Tropical Storm Adrian became Hurricane Adrian, the first hurricane of the 2011 season, according to an advisory issued by the National Hurricane Center. The storm, centered about 265 miles southwest of Acapulco, Mexico, has reached sustained winds of approximately 75 mph, just topping the 74 mph requirement [...]

The death toll from the onslaught of tropical storm Bebeng climbed to 13, based on reports received by the national disaster agency as of 5 p.m. Monday. Nine of the fatalities were from Bicol (Region V) which was the worst hit by the heavy rains unleashed by Bebeng, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction [...]

Coastal residents and oil-rig workers may soon have longer warning when a storm headed in their direction is becoming a hurricane, thanks to a University of Illinois study demonstrating how to use existing satellites to monitor tropical storm dynamics and predict sudden surges in strength. “It’s a really critical piece of information that’s really going [...]

Churning in the open Atlantic, Tropical Depression Four strengthened into Tropical Storm Colin early this morning. Colin was classified as a tropical depression midday on Monday in the south-central Atlantic Ocean. While traveling through an area with light upper-level wind shear and warm waters, the storm continued to strengthen overnight. The storm is tracking towards [...]

Tropical Depression 03W formed early Sunday EDT over the southern Philippine Sea. As of 7:30 a.m. EDT Monday morning, the system was located near 14.1 degrees N and 129.1 degrees E, or about 545 miles East of Manila.

A strong thunderstorm dropped 3/4 inch, or penny sized hail in Manhattan at 12:45AM this Thursday morning. Manhattan is located in Will County, 33 miles from downtown Chicago. A thunderstorm is not considered “severe” until hail size reaches one inch in diameter. The one inch threshold is the point at which a hailstone will cause [...]

DHAKA (AFP) – At least 17 people were killed and scores injured by lightning as a series of minor tropical storms and heavy rains swept across Bangladesh, police said Sunday. Six people were killed in the northeastern district of Habiganj, 75 miles (120 kilometres) from capital Dhaka, and four more died in the southern district [...]

NASA’s Aqua satellite flew over Tropical Storm Robyn on April 2, 1929 UTC and the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder instrument captured an infrared image of the storm’s cloud temperatures. The images showed high, cold, thunderstorm cloud tops (purple) as cold as -63 F. Credit: NASA JPL, Ed Olsen Tropical Storm “Robyn” didn’t have to fly south [...]