With the northern hemisphere now well into winter it is also the time of year when Tehuantepecer wind events occur more frequently. So what is a Tehuantepecer event you may ask? A Tehuantepecer (also called Tehuano Wind) is a post frontal N-NE’ly mountain gap wind that originates in the Bay of Campeche as cold high …
A few weeks ago we went over how to interpret Tropical Storm warning graphics. As promised, let’s now do the same for NHC, Miami graphical products that display probabilities for arrival times of tropical storm/gale force winds. Earliest Arrival Time 5 Day Earliest Reasonable Arrival Time, curtesy NOAA The above example graphic which was for …
With the Eastern North Pacific, Central North Pacific and North Atlantic Hurricane seasons approaching quickly, now is a good time to brush up on the similarities and differences between graphic forecast “cones” from the National Hurricane Centre (NHC), Central Pacific Hurricane Centre (CPHC), Joint Typhoon Warning Centre (JTWC), and Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) in their …
