Today a hurricane hunter aircraft investigated invest 99-L and finally confirmed that it had a closed circulation, therefor the National Hurricane Center upgraded it to tropical depression nine and began issuing advisories on it this at 5:00PM ET today. As of the…
Invest 99-L I still located over the Southern Bahamas this evening just north of Central Cuba at 23.5 degrees north and 79.0 degrees west moving to the west-northwest at about 5 – 10 miles per hour. 99-L finally appears to…
There has been little change with invest 99-L today; it is presently located over the Southern Bahamas and remains disorganized. Wind shear finally dropped to a more favorable 10 – 15 kts over 99-L this morning and this afternoon causing a significant uptick in…
It is now looking increasingly likely that invest 99-L will develop in the Bahamas later this week. As of 8:00pm EDT invest 99-L was located over the Western Tropical Atlantic just east of the Greater Antilles at 16.5 degrees north and…
Tropical Depression #6 was upgraded to Tropical Storm Fiona today. In addition, there is also a new tropical worth monitoring for development. Tropical Storm Fiona As of the 5:00pm EDT advisory Tropical Storm Fiona was located over the far Eastern…
We will now begin shifting gears from the Louisiana flooding to the tropics as they are beginning to wake up. This past Sunday invest 98-L was designated over the far Eastern Tropical Atlantic. It tracked quickly westward over the…
Flooding continued overnight and remains ongoing. Additional water rescues also took place and continue. So far 20,000 water rescues have taken place in Louisiana since this event began. In addition, there are still hundreds of road closures. Flood warnings remain…
Yesterday and overnight many rivers and bayous across South Louisiana have risen to flood stage and they continue to rise. This has caused more life threatening, catastrophic flooding across South Louisiana overnight; and the flooding continues. Hundreds of homes and…
Historic, catastrophic, and life threatening flooding continues across South Louisiana this evening. Over 2’ of rain has fallen across most of South Louisiana over the past two days causing historical flooding. The flooding has caused road closures – including…
Heavy rainfall and extremely dangerous and catastrophic flash flooding continues across South Louisiana and parts of Southwest Mississippi this morning. However,the threat for the most part has shifted to Louisiana. Overnight and this morning As was expected, the heavy rainfall persisted…