Tag Archives: Tropical Storms

The Weather Channel reports: T​ropical Storm Ernesto has formed and will spread heavy rain, winds and some coastal flooding across the Leeward Islands and Puerto Rico through Wednesday, before it turns north and intensifies into a hurricane. Ernesto became the fifth storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season late Monday afternoon after a Hurricane Hunter mission found a small, closed …

The Weather Channel reports: T​he latest National Hurricane Center forecast shows this system becoming Tropical Storm Debby on Saturday or Saturday night. It will then head toward a landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region on Sunday night or Monday morning as either a strong tropical storm or possibly a Category 1 hurricane. It’s important to note that impacts from this …

The New York Times reports: More than two million people were under a tropical storm warning along the Texas Gulf Coast in the early hours of Thursday as Tropical Storm Alberto, the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, neared the coast of Mexico, bringing intense rain and storm surges. The expansive storm system brought widespread coastal flooding in …

NBC News reports: The first named storm of the hurricane season is taking aim at Texas and Mexico, threatening the Gulf Coast with severe flooding and high winds. Tropical Storm Alberto formed over the western Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday morning and is expected to reach Mexico’s Gulf coast early Thursday, according to the National Hurricane Center. The storm is …

USA Today reports: Tropical Storm Alberto, the first named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, formed Wednesday in the Gulf of Mexico as parts of Texas braced for almost a foot of rain and parts of Mexico 20 inches. The National Hurricane Center issued a tropical storm warning for the Texas coast from San Luis Pass south to the …

The Weather Channel reports: Tropical Storm Ophelia has formed off the Southeast U.S. coast, and it will spread heavy rain, strong wind gusts, high surf, and coastal flooding up the Eastern Seaboard into the weekend. O​phelia became the 16th storm of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season, including an unnamed subtropical storm in mid-January. The National Hurricane Center has issued a …

The Orlando Sentinel reports: Subtropical Storm Nicole formed Monday morning in the Atlantic Ocean with a projected path that could bring it to Florida’s east coast near hurricane strength, according to the National Hurricane Center. As of 8 a.m., the system was located about 520 miles east of the northwestern Bahamas with maximum sustained winds of 45 mph moving north-northwest …

The Weather Channel reports: Tropical storm warnings have been issued across the southern half of the Florida Peninsula and the Keys ahead of the likely formation of a Gulf tropical storm that will bring heavy rain and gusty winds to those areas into the weekend. An area of low pressure located several hundred miles southwest of Fort Myers, Florida, is …