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Dexter

Every dispatch filed on Dexter, in order, so you can watch the call sharpen from first mention to the last word.

2Dispatches
2Days · AUG 3–AUG 4
I-26Tropics
Where the dispatches were filed2 of 2 placed
Map of North America and the Atlantic with a shield at each dispatch's place Natural Earth · places from the headlines
Tropical Storm Dexter likely off U.S. East Coast heading out to sea FIGURE 1 AUG 3 · I-26 TROPICS Tropical Storm Dexter likely off U.S. East Coast heading out to sea
The route · every exit
  1. Exit 1 · AUG 3 Tropical Storm Dexter likely off U.S. East Coast heading out to sea Eastern U.S.
  2. Exit 2 · AUG 4 · Subscribers Tropical Storm Dexter heading out to sea as tropical wave emerges off Africa Africa
END Final dispatch AUG 4.

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.