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Atlantic Season 2020

Every dispatch on this road this season, in order: the thread a daily newsletter leaves behind when you read it end to end.

20Dispatches
68Days · MAY 27–AUG 2
I-26Tropics
Where the dispatches were filed13 of 20 placed
Map of North America and the Atlantic with a shield at each dispatch's place Natural Earth · places from the headlines
The route · every exit
  1. Exit 1 · MAY 27 I grew up watching the Tropical Update on the Weather Channel and waited for the microwave clock to hit :50 past the hour to see what monster storms were brewing in the Atlantic. This was in the mid-1990s so the hurricane seasons really… Atlantic
  2. Exit 2 · MAY 28 As hurricane season official starts on June 1st, I will be rolling out a series of products: tropical outlook, areas of interest, overall tropical circulation not only for the Atlantic but also the other world basins including the Indian… Atlantic
  3. Exit 3 · MAY 29 Best way to visualize what’s going on in the Atlantic is to look at the animation of 10-day winds at about 1-km above the surface. Tropical weather heading into June can be quite complicated with the effects of the middle-latitude still… Gulf of Mexico
  4. Exit 4 · MAY 29 A tiny area of low pressure is sitting off the coasts of Yemen and Oman and slowly intensifying. Models have it either paralleling the coast or heading inland. But, a possible solution is the development of a… Arabian Sea
  5. Exit 5 · MAY 31 … and looks like we will have some tropical action in the Gulf of Mexico with the remnants of Tropical Storm… Gulf of Mexico
  6. Exit 6 · JUN 1 Official beginning of 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season Atlantic
  7. Exit 7 · JUN 2 Tropical Depression 03L in the southern Gulf of Mexico is very close to Tropical Storm strength. Will linger and then head north toward Gulf coast by weekend Gulf of Mexico
  8. Exit 8 · JUN 10 Tools to understand tropical meteorology
  9. Exit 9 · JUN 11 A tropical depression in the South China Sea South China
  10. Exit 10 · JUN 15 Global tropics are quiet. Sharpiegate report drops Global
  11. Exit 11 · JUN 16 Saharan Dust Layer blanketing the Main Development Region Atlantic Main Development Region
  12. Exit 12 · JUN 18 The tropics are eerily quiet Global
  13. Exit 13 · JUN 21 GFS model is performing poorly as summer begins with a dust cloud
  14. Exit 14 · JUN 24 Fish storms in Eastern Pacific as dust envelopes Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico Gulf of Mexico
  15. Exit 15 · JUL 1 The weather has been extremely boring for weeks
  16. Exit 16 · JUL 6 New Depression in the Eastern Pacific will become a Hurricane Eastern Pacific
  17. Exit 17 · JUL 22 Tropical Depression 08L in the Gulf of Mexico and Gonzalo slowly intensifying Gulf of Mexico
  18. Exit 18 · JUL 24 Hanna (rapidly) intensifying and may be a powerful hurricane at landfall
  19. Exit 19 · JUL 28 Potential Tropical Cyclone 09L still disorganized
  20. Exit 20 · AUG 2 Hurricane conditions possible on Sunday from West Palm Beach to Daytona Beach Florida
END Final dispatch AUG 2.

Why I-26?

Tropical stories ride Interstate 26, after the 26 °C sea-surface temperature often used as a rough threshold for tropical development.

26 °C

The sea-surface temperature often used as a rough threshold for tropical development; the shield number of this road.

Invest

An area the Hurricane Center is investigating, numbered 90–99 with a basin letter, before it has a name.

ACE

Accumulated Cyclone Energy: a season's wind, squared and summed every six hours. Climatology sets the scale.