Dec 16, 2020 | Storm Report 2020
Strong wind shear from seasonal frontal activity and the northern hemisphere winter shift in the jet stream across cooled water have finally seen off the record-breaking 2020 storm season, a full month later than usual. I have a sailor’s natural aversion to...
Dec 7, 2020 | Storm Report 2020
Strong wind shear dominates the Atlantic basin now, sea temperatures have cooled and the last swirls of tropical air gradients have succumbed to frontal activity and disappeared into the foulness of a traditional vile North Atlantic winter. A full month later than...
Dec 6, 2020 | Storm Report 2020
There are two flurries of activity in pressure gradients across the reporting zone, but I’m probably being overcautious. I’ll hang on another day or so until I’m absolutely certain it is safe to ring down ‘Finished With Engines’. I’m probably the last one...
Dec 5, 2020 | Storm Report 2020
A couple of ripples in pressure gradients in the west central Atlantic are all that remains of the 2020 storm season. A couple more days to be safe. The barman has rung the bell and it’s time to down glasses and call it a night – almost. Stand easy. Image...
Dec 4, 2020 | Storm Report 2020
Disturbance Sixty Six is barely a ripple on the barometric map of the Atlantic. Frontal activity is pushing south across the Gulf of Mexico and east across the entire eastern seaboard, which more or less ends the show for the Caribbean, continental United States and...
Dec 2, 2020 | Storm Report 2020
…well, it is now* Almost. The only remaining low pressure system with any chance of development is Disturbance Sixty Six, which is still languishing lazily in the eastern Atlantic, centred loosely near to Madeira. This has not taken any of the development...
