Feliz Navidad 2016

Tropical Storm Colin

Tropical Storm Colin Becomes Earliest “C” Storm in Atlantic History

 

NOAA’s National Hurricane Center upgraded Tropical Depression 3 to Tropical Storm Colin in a special update at 5:30 PM EDT Sunday, June 5--making some history along the way. Never before have we been tracking the Atlantic’s third named storm of a calendar year this early in the year. As noted in a weather.com article, there have been two other “C” storms as early as June since current naming practices began in the 1950s: Hurricane Chris (which began as a named subtropical storm on June 18, 2012) and Tropical Storm Candy (June 23, 1968). Going all the way back to 1851, the previous earliest appearance of the season’s third storm was June 12, 1887, although some early-season storms were undoubtedly missed during the pre-satellite era.

 

 

 

As of 8 PM EDT Sunday, Tropical Storm Colin was located in the south central Gulf of Mexico at 23.4°N, 87.8°W, or about 460 miles southwest of Tampa, Florida. Colin is a minimal tropical storm, with top sustained winds of just 40 mph, and only modest further strengthening is expected before Colin approaches the northwest Gulf Coast of the Florida peninsula on Monday evening. The well-defined southwesterly flow steering Colin will take it into the Atlantic and on a track paralleling the southeast U.S. coast on Tuesday, where models suggest it will maintain or regain tropical storm strength, especially southeast of North Carolina. Update: At 11:00 PM EDT Sunday, NHC placed the southeast U.S. coast from Sebastian Inlet, FL, to Altamaha Sound, GA, under a tropical storm warning, with a tropical storm watch extending northward from the warning area to the South Santee River, SC. A tropical storm warning remains in effect on the Florida Gulf Coast from Indian Pass to Englewood.

 

Comienza temporada ciclónica con una vaguada y a la espera de una onda tropical en el país

Seguirán los aguaceros en las próximas horas debido a una vaguada que está sobre el territorio dominicano y en combinación con el alto contenido de humedad y la inestabilidad de la masa de aire.

Para mañana jueves la vaguada continuará incidiendo sobre la República Dominicana y el contenido de humedad se mantendrá bastante alto a lo que se le sumará el acercamiento de la onda tropical número cuatro a la costa caribeña, que está localizada al oeste de las Antillas Menores, por lo tanto, se espera que continúen los aguaceros ocasionalmente fuertes con tormentas eléctricas y ráfagas de viento en gran parte del país.

Las precipitaciones serán hacia las provincias Hermanas Mirabal, Espaillat, Santiago, Puerto Plata, Dajabón, Santiago Rodríguez, Valverde, Montecristi, Sánchez Ramírez, Duarte, María Trinidad Sánchez, Samaná, La Vega, Monseñor Nouel, El Seibo, Hato Mayor, La Altagracia, San José de Ocoa, San Juan, Elías Piña, Bahoruco e Independencia, según un informe de la Oficina Nacional de Meteorología (Onamet).

Hoy se inicia la temporada ciclónica para el Atlántico Norte, Mar Caribe y el Golfo de México. Concluye el 30 de noviembre y es el periodo del año en que mayormente se forman ciclones tropicales.

La Onamet recomienda a la ciudadanía dar seguimiento a los boletines que se emitirán con relación a la existencia de uno de estos fenómenos y tener un plan de acción en caso de que uno de ellos pueda afectar a la República Dominicana.
La Onamet mantiene un alerta meteorológico por desbordamiento de ríos, arroyos y cañadas, inundaciones repentinas y deslizamientos de tierra para las provincias:

Santiago, Santiago Rodríguez, Dajabón, Elías Piña, Montecristi, Valverde, Puerto Plata, Espaillat, Duarte, Monte Plata, Hato Mayor, San José de Ocoa y Azua. Para el Gran Santo Domingo se mantiene la alerta meteorológica por inundaciones urbanas.

2016 Atlantic Hurricane Season Expected to be Most Active Since 2012

The 2016 Atlantic hurricane season is expected to be the most active since 2012, according to a forecast released Friday by The Weather Company, an IBM Business.
A total of 14 named storms, eight hurricanes and three major hurricanes are forecast during the coming season.

The Weather Company's forecast also calls for a slightly higher number of named storms and hurricanes than an outlook issued earlier in April by Colorado State University (CSU) that is headed by Dr. Phil Klotzbach. That forecast said the Atlantic was expected to see 13 named storms, six hurricanes and two major hurricanes.
An important note about both outlooks is that the seasonal forecast numbers do include Hurricane Alex, a rare January hurricane that struck the Azores a few months back. Though the official hurricane season spans the months from June through November, occasionally we can see storms form outside those months.