![]() ![]() So far this season, we have seen 17 named storms. With La Niña, vertical wind shear tends to be lower, and consequently, we end up with more active late seasons. “So, El Niño, via its impacts on vertical wind shear, has a stronger impact on September and especially October hurricanes than it does on August hurricanes. “Typically, what ends Atlantic hurricane seasons is that vertical wind shear gets too strong,” says Phil Klotzbach, a research scientist at Colorado State University. It isn’t just the presences of La Niña that is important, but also the lack of El Niño that influences the latter months of Atlantic hurricane season. ![]() Read more at /XuYf0npd6Q- National Weather Service September 10, 2020 It’s here! Today NOAA declared that #LaNina conditions are now present. “The likelihood of La Niña forming was factored into NOAA’s record outlook for the 2020 hurricane season being “extremely active,” as La Niña weakens winds between the ocean surface and the upper levels of the atmosphere, which allows hurricanes to more easily grow,” Brandon Miller, CNN meteorologist points out. Today, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced they are issuing a La Niña Advisory, which simply means that La Niña conditions are present in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean. This system is expected to intensify over the next few days, and has a 90% chance of becoming a named system in the next five days as it moves generally westward across the Atlantic Ocean. The system to really watch for is a new tropical wave moving off the west coast of Africa, producing a large area of showers and thunderstorms. Once it reaches the Gulf of Mexico early next week, it will have to potential to strengthen. This system is forecast to move westward, crossing both the Bahamas and Florida by this weekend. The third system is currently a large group of showers and thunderstorms northeast of the Central Bahamas. It is a very weak cluster of storms right now but may potentially strengthen as it moves into the western Gulf over the next several days. The second system is currently in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. “This system is expected to move inland over eastern North Carolina this afternoon, and therefore significant development is not expected,” the National Hurricane Center says on its website. The first, a low pressure located just off the coast of North Carolina, is producing a few showers and thunderstorms. ![]()
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