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Atlantic Season 2023

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

34Dispatches
74Days · AUG 1–OCT 13
I-26Tropics
Where the dispatches were filed24 of 34 placed
Map of North America and the Atlantic with a shield at each dispatch's place Natural Earth · places from the headlines
Global hurricanes and Accumulated Cyclone Energy FIGURE 1 AUG 1 · I-26 TROPICS Global hurricanes and Accumulated Cyclone Energy Tropical wave in Main Development Region ready to roll FIGURE 1 SEP 2 · I-26 TROPICS Tropical wave in Main Development Region ready to roll Invest 95L high chance of development into likely major hurricane FIGURE 1 SEP 3 · I-26 TROPICS Invest 95L high chance of development into likely major hurricane Watching Invest 95L for Tropical Depression by Wednesday FIGURE 1 SEP 4 · I-26 TROPICS Watching Invest 95L for Tropical Depression by Wednesday
The route · every exit
  1. Exit 1 · AUG 1 Global hurricanes and Accumulated Cyclone Energy Global
  2. Exit 2 · AUG 3 · Subscribers Looking toward week 2 in the Atlantic Atlantic
  3. Exit 3 · AUG 4 · Subscribers Looking toward week 2 in the Atlantic Atlantic
  4. Exit 4 · AUG 7 · Subscribers Atlantic remains a ghost town Atlantic
  5. Exit 5 · AUG 8 · Subscribers Hunga Tonga volcano influence on global climate South Pacific
  6. Exit 6 · AUG 10 · Subscribers Two waves to watch in Atlantic next week Atlantic
  7. Exit 7 · AUG 11 · Subscribers Hostile conditions continue in Atlantic Atlantic
  8. Exit 8 · AUG 14 · Subscribers Atlantic seeing signs of activity Atlantic
  9. Exit 9 · AUG 15 · Subscribers Atlantic seeing signs of activity Atlantic
  10. Exit 10 · AUG 15 · Subscribers Hurricane develops from tropical wave and transits the Atlantic Atlantic
  11. Exit 11 · AUG 21 · Subscribers Flurry of storm activity in Atlantic Atlantic
  12. Exit 12 · AUG 22 · Subscribers Potential Gulf system next week Gulf of Mexico
  13. Exit 13 · AUG 23 · Subscribers Franklin only show in town
  14. Exit 14 · AUG 24 · Subscribers Gulf of Mexico threat increasing Gulf of Mexico
  15. Exit 15 · AUG 25 · Subscribers Gulf of Mexico tropical system likely Gulf of Mexico
  16. Exit 16 · AUG 25 · Subscribers Tropical Storm or Hurricane landfall potential Gulf of Mexico
  17. Exit 17 · AUG 26 · Subscribers Invest 93L organizing over warm waters of southern Gulf of Mexico Yucatán
  18. Exit 18 · AUG 27 · Subscribers Slow intensification likely over next 2 days to hurricane
  19. Exit 19 · AUG 27 · Subscribers NHC maximum intensity is 80 knots Florida
  20. Exit 20 · AUG 31 · Subscribers Traffic jam around Bermuda Bermuda
  21. Exit 21 · SEP 2 Tropical wave in Main Development Region ready to roll Atlantic Main Development Region
  22. Exit 22 · SEP 3 Invest 95L high chance of development into likely major hurricane
  23. Exit 23 · SEP 4 Watching Invest 95L for Tropical Depression by Wednesday
  24. Exit 24 · SEP 18 Area off Southeast US coast could become tropical this weekend Southeast
  25. Exit 25 · SEP 19 · Subscribers Area of low pressure off Carolinas will drench coast North Carolina
  26. Exit 26 · SEP 20 · Subscribers Models confused about African easterly wave development
  27. Exit 27 · SEP 21 · Subscribers Ophelia on the way to North Carolina North Carolina
  28. Exit 28 · SEP 22 · Subscribers Ophelia intensifying up until landfall in North Carolina North Carolina
  29. Exit 29 · SEP 25 · Subscribers Philippe struggling with Rina on the way
  30. Exit 30 · SEP 26 · Subscribers Philippe nearing demise and waiting for Rina
  31. Exit 31 · SEP 27 · Subscribers Nor'easter may drench New England British Isles
  32. Exit 32 · OCT 11 · Subscribers Southeast tropical disturbance drenching Gulf Coast Gulf of Mexico
  33. Exit 33 · OCT 12 · Subscribers Invest 94L looks more threatening
  34. Exit 34 · OCT 13 · Subscribers Invest 94L with high chance of development
END Final dispatch OCT 13.

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.