October and May mark the transitional monsoon seasons across the North Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea. During this transition season weaker deep layer wind shear …
Severe Cyclonic Storm Shaheen makes history over North Oman Read on »
Introduction Our earlier blog ‘April Gains Time‘ detailed that prevoyage brief (PVB) planning for optimal routing is a net benefit service of several orders of magnitude. Continuing the theme, here …
You might wonder what a StratumFive is, if we weren’t here to tell you… So, we have a snappy few words which in one fell swoop tell the reader who we are, what we do, how we do it, and why we’d be great for them.
In a year of record weather breaking feats across the world mainly linked to climate change, there maybe some good news in that the busy North Pacific tropical storm season …
An average Tropical Storm Season for 2021 in the North Pacific? Read on »
Introduction The 10th September is the official statistical peak of the Atlantic Hurricane Season as depicted in Fig 1 from NOAA. So far, it has been a busy 3 months …
Will the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season surpass 2020? Read on »
September marks the peak of the tropical season and busy times for ship routing. This is especially true in NW Pacific when multiple tropical systems threaten the eastern Asian ports …
For ship routing the shortest route is not necessarily the safest or fastest route, so optimising routes for weather and currents is an important step in voyage planning as adverse …
In what has been an active season across the globe for Tropical Cyclones, some model guidance is suggesting that the Black Sea may be getting into the action as well. …
The summer Olympics are underway in Tokyo, Japan, and are scheduled to last through August 8th. The Games have already been heavily impacted by the COVID-19 Pandemic, which has resulted …
As part of our ship routing service Fleetweather provides clients a detailed Prevoyage Brief (PVB) which includes a table as well as visual graphics illustrating the best safe route to …
