Tropical Storm Cristobal made landfall on the Louisiana coast Sunday, packing 50 mph winds and spinning dangerous weather as far east as northern Florida, where it spawned a tornado that uprooted trees and downed power lines. The lopsided storm moved ashore between the mouth of the Mississippi River and the barrier island resort community of […]
Tropical Storm Cristobal continues to gain strength as it hovers over the central Gulf of Mexico. Models, the National Hurricane Center, and the WINK Weather Team are targeting a Louisiana coast landfall late Sunday if not early Monday morning. We’ve already seen a lot of deep tropical moisture this week and this continues to pump […]
Tropical Storm Cristobal made landfall near Atasta, Mexico (just to the west of Ciudad del Carmen) with sustained wind of 60 mph around 8:35 a.m. CDT Wednesday morning. The system will hover over land and eventually reemerge into the Gulf later this week. It remains to be seen how much the interaction with land will […]
Tuesday morning Tropical Depression #3 was upgraded to Tropical Storm Cristobal, the 3rd earliest named storm in the Atlantic on record. The previous record was held by Tropical Storm Colin on June 5, 2016. The system will be moving slowly in the Bay of Campeche for the next several days hovering over warmer than normal […]
Monday is the official start of the 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season and already odds are increasing for tropical development in the Gulf of Mexico this week. Showers and storms, associated with the remnants of Tropical Storm Amanda in the Pacific, will be heading into the Bay of Campeche this week and try to reorganize. Odds […]