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Imelda

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

4Dispatches
4Days · SEP 25–SEP 28
I-26Tropics
Where the dispatches were filed2 of 4 placed
Map of North America and the Atlantic with a shield at each dispatch's place Natural Earth · places from the headlines
Imelda expected to form in next 48-hours increasing potential to threaten Southeast U.S LOOP SEP 25 · I-26 TROPICS Imelda expected to form in next 48-hours increasing potential to threaten Southeast U.S Humberto becomes Category 5 while other system (Imelda) slowly organizes LOOP SEP 27 · I-26 TROPICS Humberto becomes Category 5 while other system (Imelda) slowly organizes
The route · every exit
  1. Exit 1 · SEP 25 Imelda expected to form in next 48-hours increasing potential to threaten Southeast U.S Southeast
  2. Exit 2 · SEP 26 · Subscribers Imelda forecast to become a hurricane but may stall/loop off Southeast coast Southeast
  3. Exit 3 · SEP 27 Humberto becomes Category 5 while other system (Imelda) slowly organizes
  4. Exit 4 · SEP 28 · Subscribers Tropical Storm Imelda slowly organizing but will remain well offshore, thankfully
END Final dispatch SEP 28.

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.