In the pre-dawn hours of September 18, 1926, one of the most destructive hurricanes in U.S. history roared into Miami, Florida. If a comparable storm struck the same area today it would rank as the most expensive hurricane in the United States. The storm may have formed somewhere near the west coast of Africa in […]
On September 16, 1961, Hurricane Esther was seeded by Navy planes in the inaugural experiment of what was to formally become Project STORMFURY next year. The Project would last for twenty years but only succeed in carrying out experiments on four storms. Esther was the first hurricane to be initially detected by satellite. On Sept. […]
(This blog post was revised Jan. 31, 2025) On September 16, 1961, Hurricane Debbie made landfall in County Mayo, Ireland, becoming (possibly) the first tropical cyclone on record to reach the British Isles. Debbie formed in the usual location, near the Cabo Verde Islands, on Sept. 6th. It was very nearly a full hurricane at […]
On the morning of September 13, 1876, a severe hurricane struck the island of Puerto Rico. It caused wide-spread damage throughout the island and continued on to wreak havoc on Hispañola and Cuba. As it struck on the feast day of Saint Philip Neri, it became known as the San Felipe hurricane. The storm became […]
On September 11, 1961, Hurricane Carla made landfall at Port O’Connor, Texas, bringing storm surge, torrential rains, high wind gusts and tornadoes to northern Texas and Louisiana. Carla was the first tropical cyclone to have its entire life history recorded by research flights. Carla formed from a persistent area of disturbed weather in the […]
Check out the article at http://www.livescience.com/56050-peak-hurricane-day-arrives.html.
On September 9, 1971, Hurricane Edith grazed Cabo Gracias a Dios as a Category 5 storm, destroying nearly every house in the area and leaving 7000 homeless. Edith caused a trail of destruction from the Antilles to Venezuela, then across Honduras, Nicaragua, Belize, Mexico, and the United States. Edith formed from a disturbance that came […]
September’s science meeting consisted of 4 presentations: Evan Kalina (AOML/ESRL), “Power Spectra and Eddy Dissipation Rate Measured by the Coyote Unmanned Aircraft System in Hurricane Edouard (2014)” Sim Aberson (HRD), “A Preliminary Assessment of the HEDAS Reruns (2011-2015)” Hui Christophersen (HRD), “Evaluating the Impact of G-IV/P3-like Dropsonde Profiles on TC Analyses and Forecasts using Global Hawk […]
Read the article at http://www.postandcourier.com/20160907/160909619/storm-models-no-match-for-uncertain-hurricane-hermine.
See all the photos at https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2016/09/07/hermine-has-had-many-faces-and-the-hurricane-hunters-photographed-them-all/
