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Francine

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

5Dispatches
6Days · SEP 7–SEP 12
I-26Tropics
Where the dispatches were filed2 of 5 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 · SEP 7 · Subscribers Invest 90L next best chance at Francine next week
  2. Exit 2 · SEP 8 · Subscribers Second half of Atlantic season starts with Francine Atlantic
  3. Exit 3 · SEP 9 · Subscribers Francine expected to intensity into a hurricane
  4. Exit 4 · SEP 10 · Subscribers After a period of struggling against dry air, Francine set to intensify perhaps to Category 2
  5. Exit 5 · SEP 12 · Subscribers Gordon expected to be a fish storm, potentially a major hurricane Southeast
END Final dispatch SEP 12.

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.