There's not too much to report in this post, so it will be brief. Fay is a dissipating tropical depression, and since my last post on Thursday, Gonzalo formed and dissipated near Cabo Verde.
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| 12-hour infrared satellite animation from September 26. |
Gonzalo was the 7th named storm of the season, though it only lasted for two days. In fact, there have been named storms for a TOTAL of 13.25 "named storm days" this season, which is 27% of average for the date.
Amazingly, the hurricane drought continues with nothing in the foreseeable future. No hurricane season has gotten this far along without a hurricane in the past century, and during the more reliable satellite era (mid-1970s), the previous record latest first hurricane formation was September 11.
With both Fay and Gonzalo active as tropical storms on September 25, it became the most active day of the entire season so far, in terms of both named storm activity and Accumulated Cyclone Energy. The ACE is up to 10.4% of average for the date. If nothing forms in the meantime, it will slip to 9% of average on October 8.
Looks like I picked an easy year as my final year for writing this blog!
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Will there be a reliable person or group to take over when your retired? Any advice would be greatly appreciated- 💕
ReplyDeleteI did respond to your comment last week about this, but it could have been easily missed. Copied here:
DeleteThank you, Ruth... I definitely appreciate your long-time interest in this blog! I won't be retiring from work anytime soon, just from routine posts on this blog. It began in 1996, and I'm ready hang up the hat. I'll probably still write now and then, but not reliably.
As far as alternatives go, you might check out these and see if they're a good fit for you:
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/ (Jeff Masters and Bob Henson especially)
https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/ (Levi Cowan has great video updates when warranted)
https://www.brightband.com/blog/ (Andy Hazleton is thorough and experienced)