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Lowell

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

3Dispatches
4Days · SEP 1–SEP 4
I-26Tropics
Where the dispatches were filed2 of 3 placed
Map of North America and the Atlantic with a shield at each dispatch's place Natural Earth · places from the headlines
2-meter Temperature Example from Weather Next 3 (Google Deep Mind) FIGURE 1 SEP 4 · I-26 TROPICS 2-meter Temperature Example from Weather Next 3 (Google Deep Mind)
The route · every exit
  1. Exit 1 · SEP 1 · Subscribers Edouard made landfall as nearly a hurricane. Lowell explosively intensifying in the Eastern Pacific with friends Eastern Pacific
  2. Exit 2 · SEP 2 · Subscribers Hurricane Lowell exploded to Category 5 as expected and may threaten Kauai later next week
  3. Exit 3 · SEP 4 Hurricane Lowell remains a powerful Category 4 storm south of Hawaii and may come close to Kauai next week Hawaii
END Final dispatch SEP 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.