HurricaneJunky
HurricaneJunky is the creator of this website, a weather enthusiast / storm chaser and a Native Floridian who comes from a family of hurricane veterans. One or more of his family members have been thru: The Great Hurricane of 1926, 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane, 1935 Labor Day Hurricane, 1941 Miami Hurricane, 1947 Miami Hurricane 1950 Hurricane King, 1960 Hurricane Donna, 1964 Hurricane Cleo, 1965 Hurricane Betsy, 1979 Hurricane David, 1992 Hurricane Andrew, 2000 Hurricane Gordon, 2004 Hurricane Charley and 2005 Hurricane Wilma. He has experienced (in some way) 1992 Hurricane Andrew, 1985 No-Name Storm, 1993 Super Storm, 2004 Hurricane Charley, 2004 Hurricane Frances, 2004 Hurricane Jeanne, 2005 Hurricane Wilma and 2008 TS Faye. He is an experienced tropical weather tracker and a certified NWS Skywarn storm spotter. A Davis Weather Instruments Vantage Pro2 6152 records the weather conditions occurring outside his home.
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DAY 1 FIRE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
1015 AM CST WED MAR 06 2013
VALID 061700Z - 071200Z
...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER AREA FOR FLORIDA PENINSULA...
...FLORIDA PENINSULA...
A VERY DRY AIR MASS CONTINUES TO FILTER IN ACROSS THE STATE IN THE
WAKE A COLD FRONT /CURRENTLY MOVING SWD ACROSS EXTREME SRN FL/. PW
VALUES OF 0.19 AND 0.20 INCH WERE OBSERVED ON THE 12Z SOUNDINGS AT
TLH AND JAX......
Tropical Storm Isaac Update Featured
5am Thursday 8/23/12
Summary:
At 5am EDT Thursday, Tropical Storm Isaac was located about 255 miles south-southeast of San Juan Puerto Rico, or approximately 1,275 miles from Miami, Florida.After a wobble to the southwest and a reformation of the center of circulation last night, Isaac is moving west at 12 mph. Although additional “wobbles” are possible, a general west-northwest motion is expected for the next day or 2 as it is steered around the southern edge of a large high pressure system i...
Key West 2005 Post-Wilma Pictures Featured
We visited Key West shortly after Hurricane Wilma bulldozed her way through, leaving large numbers of cars flooded, some still with signs in the windows meant to let tow truck operators know they were submerged and need to be removed. LOTS of tree debris and damage around. What a mess!...
Tropical Storm Debby has been named by the National Hurricane Center this afternoon after hurricane hunters investigated Invest 96L and found a solid closed circulation, with maximum winds of 50mph and gusts up to 65mph. All interests along the Gulf of Mexico coast should closely monitor this system.
Debby is drifting north at 5mph. The storm has brought heavy rains to Western Cuba, South Florida, and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula over the past two days, but the disturbance's heaviest rains are lo...
Activity is firing up South of Cuba and the NHC has a fresh new circle around the area of convection. All eyes are on the system as it has a chance to develop over the next day or two as it moves closer to Florida. The Xtreme Weather Team will keep you posted and we'll be on high alert for a potential chase - the first of the 2012 Atlantic Hurricane Season. ...
Tropics Becoming More Active Featured
Stu Ostro, Senior Meteorologist, The Weather Channel
Jun 12, 2012 4:12 pm ET
Graphical tropical update: Tropics Watch
- Showers and thunderstorms are beginning to swirl off the coast of Costa Rica in the eastern Pacific. A tropical cyclone could form during the next couple of days and then bring heavy rainfall to southeast Mexico and parts of Central America by the end of the week.
- The western Caribbean will be an area to watch this coming weekend and early next week for the potentia...
Today marks the first day of work for the National Hurricane Center's new director--Dr. Rick Knabb, who worked at NHC from 2005 - 2008 as a senior hurricane forecaster before leaving in 2008 to take a position as deputy director and director of operations of the Central Pacific Hurricane Center (CPHC) and NWS Forecast Office in Honolulu, Hawaii. Dr. Knabb left Hawaii to take a position as The Weather Channel's hurricane expert in 2010, where he worked until May of this year. He thus brings a uni...
A full week before the official start of the Atlantic Hurricane Season and we already have our 2nd storm:
Tropical Storm Beryl...
2012 Atlantic Hurricane Season Predictions from the NHC:
9-15 Named Storms,
4-8 Hurricanes
1-3 Major Hurricanes
An Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) range of 65%-140% of the median.
The complete text is below:
NOAA 2012 Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook
Issued: 24 May 2012
Realtime monitoring of tropical Atlantic conditionsRealtime monitoring of tropical East Pacific conditions
Atlantic Hurricane Outlook & Seasonal Climate Summary Archive...
Below is an update to the potential severe weather event this weekend.
A low pressure system is organizing over Texas and is still forecast to fully develop over the northern Gulf of Mexico on Saturday and move east across northern or central Florida Saturday night into Sunday. This low pressure system will also have an accompanying cold front, which will move across the Florida Peninsula Sunday.
There will be two opportunities for severe weather to develop: first, in scattered sever...
More updates on the possible severe weather event this weekend in South Florida:...
Severe Weather Advisory from Florida NWS/EOC:
There is a reasonably high chance of severe weather this weekend across the Florida peninsula as a strong low pressure system develops over the Gulf of Mexico late this week and moves across the state sometime this weekend. Timing is difficult to determine at this time, but it appears that the period from Saturday night through Sunday morning may be the most likely time for any severe weather. It's noteworthy that the Storm Prediction Center in Okla...
...Severe Weather Potential Late Tonight and
Tomorrow Morning Across South Florida...
UPDATED 345 PM EDT April 5th
A strong low pressure system in the upper levels of the atmosphere over northern Mississippi and Alabama will help propel an area of thunderstorms currently over the northeastern Gulf of Mexico eastward toward the Florida peninsula tonight. Upper-level dynamics with this system will be stronger than with the system that moved through early this morning, as mid-level winds of ...
by Chris Dolce, Meteorologist
Updated: August 17, 2011 1:00 p.m. ET
From drought to floods and tornadoes, 2011 has seen more than its fair share of devastation. According to the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), total economic damage costs in the U.S. exceed $35 billion so far in 2011! This includes nine "billion-dollar weather disasters" since January! This is an unbelievable number of events of this magnitude crammed into just over 7 months. Dating back to 1980,...
Major Dust Storm Moves Through Arizona Updated: 10:00 PM July 6, 2011
A very large and historic dust storm moved through a large swatch of Arizona during the late afternoon and evening hours of July 5, 2011. Widespread reports of near zero visibility and winds gusting over 50 MPH (80 kph) were received by the NWS Phoenix office. Based on radar data, it is estimated that this dust storm reached a peak height of at least 5000 to 6000 ft (1500 to 1800 m). The aerial coverage was very expansiv...
This storm resulted in winds of 37 mph, 12.26" per hour rain rate and 2.19" of rain in 30 mins!...















