Category: Weather & Tides

Boat in Lighting Strike - USCG Boating Safety Magazine

How to Survive Lightning Storms While Boating

7/27/2020 - By Mike Telleria, USCG Powerful, dangerous, highly unpredictable — all are common descriptions of lightning storms. A direct strike that results only in ringing ears and a few roasted electronics would be considered lucky. Unlucky would be through-hulls blown out, a sunk boat or worse — possibly serious injury or… SEE MORE

Storm Surge Causes Widespread Damage Along South Texas Coast

7/27/2020 - By Jonathan Munson. As expected, Hurricane Hanna made landfall at around 5 p.m. Saturday just south of Baffin Bay as a Category 1 storm. What was not expected was the size of its storm surge and the devastation it would leave behind. While the eye of the storm barreled into… SEE MORE

Hanna Officially Becomes a Category 1 Hurricane

7/25/2020 - Hurricane Hanna has formed in the Gulf of Mexico as a Category 1 hurricane with sustained winds of 75 mph around the eye wall. Hanna is strengthening and the National Hurricane Center says it is expected to make landfall in southern Texas on Saturday evening. Conditions along the southwestern Gulf… SEE MORE

Tropical Storm Hanna Forms in the Gulf of Mexico

7/24/2020 - By Madeline Holcombe. Tropical Storm Hannah is heading toward Texas. The system, which formed in the Gulf of Mexico as Tropical Depression Eight on Wednesday night, strengthened into a tropical storm late Thursday. It is the earliest H-named storm in an Atlantic basin hurricane season. The storm has sustained winds of… SEE MORE

Douglas Strengthens, Becoming First Hurricane of Eastern Pacific Season

7/22/2020 - By Ben Gutierrez. Douglas has strengthened into the first hurricane of the 2020 Eastern Pacific season. As of the 5 a.m. Wednesday update, Douglas was about 1,785 miles east-southeast of Hilo or 1,500 miles southwest of the southern tip of Baja California. Douglas now has maximum sustained winds of 75… SEE MORE

Tsunami Warning Canceled for Coastal Alaska After 7.8 Earthquake

7/22/2020 - By Anchorage Daily News. A tsunami warning across a large swath of coastal Alaska triggered by a magnitude 7.8 earthquake off the Alaska Peninsula on Tuesday night was canceled by 12:30 a.m. Wednesday after the officials determined the tsunami was no longer a threat. The tsunami warning originally stretched from the Alaska Peninsula to… SEE MORE

New Data Shows an ‘Extraordinary’ Rise in U.S. Coastal Flooding

7/22/2020 - By Christopher Flavelle. Parts of the United States saw record levels of high-tide flooding last year as rising seas brought water further into coastal homes and infrastructure, government scientists reported Tuesday. The increase in high-tide flooding along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts since 2000 has been “extraordinary,” the National Oceanic and… SEE MORE

Tropical Storm Fay Forecast to Make Landfall Along Mid-Atlantic

7/10/2020 - Tropical Storm Fay, currently located off the Mid-Atlantic coast is forecast to move northward and make landfall near New York City tonight. Impacts from Fay will extend across parts of the Mid-Atlantic into Southern New England including moderate to locally heavy rainfall and flash flood potential near and north of… SEE MORE

#OceanIQ

6/30/2020 - Ocean Month happens every June, and is a great time for everyone to learn more about our Ocean and the important role it plays in sustaining life on this planet! SEE MORE

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6 Things Forecasters Want You to Know About Weather and Climate

6/26/2020 - 1. Every big weather event isn't necessarily caused by climate change. Severe or extreme weather can be caused or intensified by climate change, but other factors play a role, too. The ingredients that create all weather events remain the same, but a changing climate can affect one or more of those ingredients,… SEE MORE

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