The NWS National Hurricane Center is giving a low pressure system over the central Gulf of Mexico a high 90% chance of forming into a tropical cyclone. The system, located…
https://gcaptain.com/tropical-storm-expected-to-form-in-warm-gulf-of-mexico-waters/
Ports in the Southeast are bracing for what is expected to be a Category 1 hurricane when Nicole makes landfall in Florida late Wednesday night or early Thursday.
Condition Zulu, meaning the gates are closed and no operations are taking place, has gone into effect in Florida at Port Miami, Port Canaveral, Port Everglades and Jaxport. The ports of Savannah and Brunswick in Georgia and Charleston in South Carolina on Wednesday were at condition X-Ray, which means gale-force winds are expected...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/florida-ports-close-as-nicole-nears
The ports along Florida’s Gulf-facing coastline and eastern U.S. freight railroads are taking steps to safeguard their operations ahead of Hurricane Ian, which is expected to reach west central Florida sometime midweek.
“Port Tampa Bay is coordinating closely with federal, state and local agencies, as well as the maritime community to prepare for and respond to potential impacts of Hurricane Ian,” Port Tampa Bay said in a Sunday notice. “As always, the Port’s priorities are safety of life,...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/florida-ports-and-railroads-eye-hurricane-ian
Tropical Storm Ian has formed in the Caribbean Sea, just south of Jamaica, with maximum sustained winds of 45 miles per hour.
Ian is expected to remain over the ocean until early Monday morning, where it is then forecast to become a major hurricane before it moves over the island of Cuba and into the Gulf of Mexico.
On Saturday, Jamaica was under a tropical storm watch and the Cayman Islands were under a hurricane watch. The National Hurricane Center said the storm could bring heavy rainfall...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/tropical-storm-ian-forms-in-caribbean
The 2021 Atlantic hurricane season officially ended Tuesday, and it was a busy one.
A total of 21 named storms developed (winds of 39 mph or greater), including seven hurricanes (winds of 74 mph or greater), of which four were major hurricanes of Category 3 or higher (winds of 111 mph or greater). This above-average season was accurately predicted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center, a division of the National Weather Service, in its May and August...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/2021-atlantic-hurricane-season-3rd-most-active-on-record
Over the weekend, tropical storms Peter and Rose became the 16th and 17th named storms of this year’s Atlantic hurricane season, respectively. But what’s in a name, or at least a tropical storm or hurricane name?
Before they started naming storms, hurricane forecasters referred to them by saying something like “the storm 500 miles east-southeast of...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/how-and-why-do-hurricanes-get-their-names
HOUSTON, Aug 26 (Reuters) – U.S. energy companies on Thursday began airlifting workers from Gulf of Mexico oil production platforms and moved vessels from the path of what could become…
An area of low pressure currently sitting in the Caribbean Sea has gone from one to watch to one to possibly fear in less than a day. An update from…
The National Weather Services’s National Hurricane Center says it is closely watching a broad area of low pressure that is forecasted to track into the Gulf of Mexico where conditions…
In an advisory issued at 10.00 a.m. CDT this morning, the National Hurricane Center warned that Hurricane Zeta, the 27th named storm of the current hurricane season, is expected to produce a life-threatening storm surge along portions of the northern Gulf Coast beginning later today, with the highest inundation occurring between Port Fourchon, La., and Dauphin Island, Ala.
Zeta is expected to make landfall this afternoon as a strong Category 1 or a weak Category 2 hurricane, with the center of...
https://www.marinelog.com/news/oil-and-gas-production-shut-in-as-gulf-coast-prepares-for-zeta/