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TD3 NowTropical Storm Chantal 
Well finally something has formed in the Atlantic to track, but nothing to really write home about, yet. Tropical Depression Three (Chantal) formed late last night over the north Atlantic, and still has a chance to take the Chantal name, if the system (invest 99L) in the central Atlantic doesn’t first, more on that […]

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I’m currently watching two area’s of interest in the tropical Atlantic late this morning. The first area (invest 98L) is what I was monitoring yesterday near Bermuda and east of the Bahamas. This system has become a little more organized, but still remains weak. This area could become a sub-tropical or tropical storm during the […]

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Tropical disturbance Invest98L this morning looking a tad better on visible satellite imagery. You can still see that the system is fighting some shear as the upper-trough remains close by to the west. The eastern side of the system looks better, with fanning of the outflow and thunderstorm tops, while the west side is dealing […]

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Possible home grown tropical activity in the making this morning east of the Bahamas. New Invest 98L up for a area of deep convection that is showing slight signs of possible slow development. Early model guidance brings this system to a tropical storm off the east coast of the United States. Could we be looking […]

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I was going to write about the changing going on in the tropics today, but think I’ll save that for tomorrow. Sure there is a area of disturbed weather in the western Gulf of Mexico, but this area won’t be Chantal anytime soon with the current wind shear, just a big rain maker for Texas, […]

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Yesterday morning as I was driving into the metro area of south Florida, you could see the sunrise give way to towering early morning thunderstorms at the beach. It was a awesome sight to see as storms rocked right along the coast. Throughout the morning hours, several water spout reports came in from spouts near […]

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I had a lot of fun on Sunday shooting mostly sea breeze thunderstorm time lapse video in several area’s of South Florida. The cap held most of the storms until late in the day over the interior locations of the state, like around the lake and such. I shot a long time lapse of the […]

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