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Rafael

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

4Dispatches
5Days · NOV 3–NOV 7
I-26Tropics
Where the dispatches were filed4 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 · NOV 3 · Subscribers Tropical Storm Rafael expected to form soon in southern Caribbean Caribbean
  2. Exit 2 · NOV 4 · Subscribers Tropical Storm Rafael could rapidly intensify on way to Cuba on Tuesday Cuba
  3. Exit 3 · NOV 6 · Subscribers Hurricane Rafael now tracking across the Gulf of Mexico Gulf of Mexico
  4. Exit 4 · NOV 7 · Subscribers Hurricane Rafael still no threat to the Lower 48 Lower 48
END Final dispatch NOV 7.

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.