You've got to check out TWC Senior Meteorologist Stu Ostro's latest blog entry. There are some truly remarkable satellite and radar snapshots from this past year in there, and Stu's entries are always top-notch, each and every time.

Additionally, twc_aficionados member and w_coast_weather maintainer, musicman474747, has saved some outstanding pics of his own and put them in a place for all ( Read more... )

Scientists studying the easterly waves and related phenomenon that form and head west from Africa and the Cape Verde islands are being treated to a very potent, and, possibly especially important, southern-latitude tropical wave, this weekend.

From NAMMA Forecasting for 08/18/06:

"Synoptic Summary Slide from Today’s Presentation 8/18/06 ( Read more... )

Warren Madden: "...certainly the best organized one
we've seen so far this year coming across the coast of Africa..."

Jim Cantore: "...could become Chris..."

Introducing Cape Verde-borne Invest 99L!

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True to form by this time in the season, more and more areas of interest are popping up here and there. We had one ten day stretch during June that, for all practical purposes, was fairly ramped-up for a month of June, and more like what we are seeing now, which is arguably climatologically about average - as we start to come into the heart of the ( Read more... )

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