Severe weather warning for UK
Weather warnings are in place for most of the UK, as forecasters say another storm system could hit this week. The Met Office issued yellow “be aware” warnings for wind and rain for all regions except Eastern England and Orkney…
Rina is now a tropical depression
As of this afternoon (28) Tropical Depression Rina has been ripped apart by strong upper-level southerly winds. The low level center expected to drift slowly southwards along the Yucatan coast. Long range radar out of Key West shows that moisture…
Rina weakens to Tropical Storm
Rina today (27) is falling apart despite trying to make a comeback. It has been dowgraded to a Tropical Storm. Rob Lightbown of Crown Weather writes, “However, the latest satellite imagery and reconnaissance reports indicate that Rina is becoming very…
Rina may have reached its peak. Invest 97L of no concern except for heavy rain
As of 10am this morning (26) Hurricane Rina is holding its own and is a borderline Cat. 2/3 storm. Wind shear values from the CIMSS products indicate that there is about 20 knots of shear right over the core of…
Hurricane Rina and Invest 97L
Hurricane Rina yesterday morning (25) was at Cat. 2 strength and struggling a little bit. It’s path is uncertain. Both Crown Weather and Weather Underground mention various scenarios and few of the models agree. There are so many ‘ifs’ the…
The earth moved on Sunday
The Cayman Islands region experienced an earthquake in the early hours of Sunday morning. The quake struck at 03:23am and was measured at a magnitude of 4.1 mb. It was located 475 km W Spanish town and 146 km S…
Hurricane Rina means wet weather for Cayman
Hazard Management is sending Advisories on Hurricane Rina that is producing a lot of rainfall over our area. The general direction which is forecast for this storm steers it away from the Cayman Islands but severe weather associated with this…
Potential trouble for Cayman and the Caribbean next week
Rob Lightbown of Crown Weather warns of potential tropical troubles over the next week. The various model guidance forecast have differing views: The GFS model starts to spin up this low pressure system in the southwestern Caribbean during Saturday into…
Western Caribbean weather disturbance
Rob Lightbown of Crown Weather says, “I am closely watching an area of disturbed weather in the western and northwestern Caribbean. There is an area of low pressure associated with this disturbed weather and satellite imagery this morning (14) showed…
Philippe being ripped apart and developing LP system over Cuba
Hurricane Philippe’s time is running out as it is being ripped apart by high wind shear of 40-50 knots. By the time you read this Philippe should be receiving his last rites without affecting any land areas. As we reported…
