Tropical Weather

Atlantic Tropical Weather Update (Updated)

gregladen | August 25, 2013

So, how has the Atlantic hurricane season shaping up so far? According to data accumulated by the National Weather Service, as shown (with added items) here ... ... we should have had about four or five named storms at this point in the season. Since numbers for this time of year are small, variation is large, so this is not too meaningful but it can give us an idea. So far, we have had these storms in the Atlantic: Tropical Storm ANDREA Tropical Storm BARRY Tropical Storm CHANTAL Tropical Storm DORIAN Tropical Storm ERIN The next storm will be named Fernand, and it may be forming as we…

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