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Isaias

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

3Dispatches
3Days · OCT 7–OCT 9
I-26Tropics
Where the dispatches were filed1 of 3 placed
Map of North America and the Atlantic with a shield at each dispatch's place Natural Earth · places from the headlines
Isaias is nearing hurricane intensity over the warm Gulf but is battling wind shear LOOP OCT 7 · I-26 TROPICS Isaias is nearing hurricane intensity over the warm Gulf but is battling wind shear Major hurricane status expected but some weakening prior to landfall late Friday LOOP OCT 8 · I-26 TROPICS Major hurricane status expected but some weakening prior to landfall late Friday Wind shear not having an impact this morning with continued strengthening likely FIGURE 1 OCT 9 · I-26 TROPICS Wind shear not having an impact this morning with continued strengthening likely
The route · every exit
  1. Exit 1 · OCT 7 Isaias is nearing hurricane intensity over the warm Gulf but is battling wind shear Gulf of Mexico
  2. Exit 2 · OCT 8 Major hurricane status expected but some weakening prior to landfall late Friday
  3. Exit 3 · OCT 9 Wind shear not having an impact this morning with continued strengthening likely
END Final dispatch OCT 9.

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.