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Not a hurricane but the first named Tropical Storm of the season, Beryl, is hitting north-east Florida with 50kt winds.

Although Beryl is an unwelcome sight for those at the beach this Memorial Day weekend, the storm will deliver a dose of much needed rainfall to parts of the Southeast that are currently suffering from severe to exceptional drought.

It's an ill wind that blows nobody good.

Sign of the times that they need a tropical storm to help them out of drought.

Windy weather again

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-19161991

Tropical Storm Ernesto has reached hurricane strength while passing northern Honduras, and is approaching Belize and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.

The US National Hurricane Centre (NHC) said it is bringing heavy rains and winds of up to 130km/h (80mph).

There is a chance that the Republican convention, which will be held to nominate the Romney/Ryan climate change denial team, will be disrupted.

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/storms/ ... 57184622/1

TS/Hurricane Isaac is now predicted to make a direct hit on New Orleans.

It's just a baby though. The odds are 50:50 of it even becoming a hurricane and only ~20% of it developing past Cat. 1.

Hurricane Kirk (to be) is looking rather curious:

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

Most hurricanes continue towards the Americas from the location Kirk is now in, but this one is about to do a U-turn and by Monday (when it will still be a hurricane) it will be in the middle of the North Atlantic, apparently heading towards the UK.

Not so unusual. They usually blow out to just another wet and windy day, or they stay south and sink ships in the bay of Biskay.

This map shows all historic storms from within 2 degrees of Kirk's location, so it looks like that's what they do.

A while later we get out 'equinoctial gales' from the remnants such storms.

Hurricane Sandy looks interesting. It's just hit Cuba as a cat 2 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-20078215).

This one looks really complex with weather systems merging to form a big, slow moving storm across a wide area of north east USA.

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/26/us/tr ... index.html

http://www.weather.com/news/weather-hur ... m-20121025

There's talk of pressure falling below 950mb

Back up from tropical storm to hurricane: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/ ... 7A20121027

clv101 wrote:Hurricane Sandy looks interesting. It's just hit Cuba as a cat 2 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-20078215).

Poor old Cubans seem to get all the crap from the US: invasions, sanctions, hurricanes....