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Ernesto

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

4Dispatches
5Days · AUG 12–AUG 16
I-26Tropics
Where the dispatches were filed3 of 4 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 · AUG 12 · Subscribers Tropical Storm Ernesto named but will remain well off US East Coast Eastern U.S.
  2. Exit 2 · AUG 13 · Subscribers Ernesto nearing hurricane strength, slowing down
  3. Exit 3 · AUG 14 · Subscribers Hurricane Ernesto to slam into Bermuda this weekend Bermuda
  4. Exit 4 · AUG 16 · Subscribers Hurricane Ernesto lashing Bermuda Bermuda
END Final dispatch AUG 16.

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.