Year: 2019
Dorian, We Hardly Knew Ye – Thankfully!
September 4, 2019, AM Update – Dorian is still a Category 2 Hurricane with 105 mph winds, located late this morning 90 miles due east of St. Augustine, moving north/northwestward at a faster speed now of 9 mph. It is …
More Likely Hurricane Gusts, Rather than Sustained Winds for Florida from Dorian
September 3, 2019, PM Update – While Hurricane Dorian remains a powerful hurricane, the Florida forecast for sustained hurricane force winds has diminished and instead, forecasters expect hurricane force gusts tonight and tomorrow, especially from Brevard through Volusia Counties. …
Latest Dorian Forecast a Reason Du Jour for Hope
September 3, 2019, AM Update – Hurricane Dorian started taking its northwestward turn away from Florida at the earliest part of the forecast window (this morning instead of later today), so its expected impacts on Florida will be slightly less …
Deadly Dorian Moving Dangerously Close Tonight to Florida’s East Coast
September 2, 2019, PM Update – Dorian continues to be essentially stationary, just northeast of Grand Bahama Island. It has already claimed five lives in the Bahamas. Maximum sustained winds are 145 mph – a strong Category 4 hurricane. It …
Dorian Will Be Late to Florida – Once Again
September 2, 2019, AM Update – Hurricane Dorian (now a Cat-4) is basically stalled out over Grand Bahama Island, moving slowly to the west at 1 mph. National Hurricane Center forecasters at 11am today expect Dorian to begin a very …
Dangerous Dorian Expected to Parallel Florida’s East Coast or Skim Along Just Offshore
September 1, 2019, PM Update – With Hurricane Dorian’s track continuing west it’s still unclear tonight just how close this major Category 5 storm will come to the Florida coast and whether there will be tropical storm or hurricane force …
Category 5 Dorian Coming “Perilously Close” to Florida Coast – Size and Strength Increasing
September 1, 2019, AM Update – Hurricane Dorian continued to rapidly strengthen this morning into a full-size Category 5 storm. It’s now one of the strongest hurricanes on record in the northwestern Bahamas, with sustained winds of 180 mph. The …
Tropical Storm Watches Up For Hurricane Dorian as Focus Shifts to Northern Florida
August 31, 2019, PM Update – As Hurricane Dorian creeps closer to the Florida coast, forecasts still call for the dangerous storm to turn northward at some point, but tonight the question remains whether that turn will occur soon enough …