Colorado State University hurricane researchers are predicting an above-average Atlantic hurricane season in 2021, the university said Thursday, citing the likely absence of El Niño as a primary factor. CSU said Tropical Atlantic sea surface temperatures are near their long-term averages, while subtropical Atlantic sea surface temperatures are much warmer than their long-term average values. The warmer subtropical Atlantic also favors an active 2021 Atlantic hurricane season. According to CSU, the tropical Pacific currently has weak La Niña conditions, that is, water temperatures are somewhat cooler than normal in the eastern and central tropical Pacific. While these waters may warm slightly during the next few months, CSU said it does not currently anticipate El Niño for the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season. El Niño tends to increase…
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The extremely active 2020 Atlantic hurricane season draws to a close today with a record-breaking 30…
Bermuda Braces for Hurricane Teddy as Storm is…
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'La Nina' Climate Forms, Increasing Chances of…
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VITEMA to Start Distribution of Atlantic Hurricane…
Staff Consortium September 10, 2020The Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Agency said Thursday it will begin distributing…
Weather System Expected to Leave African Coast…
Staff Consortium September 09, 2020A tropical wave forecast to leave the Coast of Africa Thursday shows promise of development, with its…
There are currently two weather systems looking to form in the tropical Atlantic, with both expected to become tropical depressions in the coming days. The first, whose current trajectory takes it no...
St. Croix was unscathed. Residents of the Big Island, as it is called, had braced for impact as projections were certain the U.S. Virgin Islands would be whiplashed by Hurricane Irma. But well into th...
The National Hurricane Center is monitoring a weather system that is projected to see further development and whose path should be monitored by interests in the Leeward Islands, including the U.S. Vir...
LAKE ARTHUR, La. (AP) — Hurricane Laura pounded the Gulf Coast for hours with ferocious wind, torrential rains and rising seawater as it roared ashore over southwestern Louisiana near the Texas bord...
Residents territory-wide have been asking for more rain — not the kind accompanied by hurricane-force winds that wreaks havoc on communities — but the type that pours for hours, filling cisterns a...
A tropical storm warning remains in effect for the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico as the center of Tropical Storm Laura, which the National Hurricane Center described as "disorganized," moved ove...
FirstBank on Friday informed the general public that the FirstBank Plaza & Port of Sale branches on St. Thomas as well as the Sunny Isle branch on St. Croix will remain closed on Saturday, August 22 d...
A tropical storm warning has been issued for the Northern Leeward Islands, among them the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, as Tropical Storm Laura looks to make a direct impact on the territory be...
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