28 August 2011
Is This Tropical Storm Katia??
Posted by Dan Satterfield
The tropical wave (bottom left) off Africa is looking very healthy as of Sunday night.
The track/intensity models are indicating development, but hint at a real possibility of an eventual NW track before it approaches North America. I suspect it will be upgraded to a named storm within 36 hours. The next 2 weeks are the most active of the hurricane season.
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.
Please let us have weather updates if this is possible. Thanks
It seems likely that it will recurve and not threaten the mainland in the U.S. I will post more if that seems to be changing.