Category Archives: Ocean Storms

Ocean Storms

Dangerous North Atlantic Storm Impacting Shipping Lanes

Posted on February 19, 2018 by Fred Pickhardt

A developing hurricane force storm low over the west-central North Atlantic continues to move eastward at 35 knots producing winds of 55-75 knots with significant wave heights up to 12 meters (40 feet) within 180 NM south and 120 NM … Continue reading →

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Update: Dangerous North Atlantic Hurricane Force Storm Expected

Posted on February 17, 2018 by Fred Pickhardt

Atlantic Storm Update A rapidly deepening storm low is forecast off the USEC Sunday morning then tracks ENE to East with winds reaching 55-70 knots and seas to 10 meters (33 feet) by 1800 UTC 18th and winds off 60-75 … Continue reading →

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Hurricane Force Storm Forecast for Central North Atlantic

Posted on February 16, 2018 by Fred Pickhardt

A weak low will move off the USEC near Cape Hatteras Saturday evening then move eastward and deepen rapidly and develop storm to hurricane force winds of 55-70 knots and seas to 9 meters (30 ft) south and southwest of … Continue reading →

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Tropical Cyclone Cebile near peak intensity

Posted on January 31, 2018 by Fred Pickhardt

Tropical Cyclone Cebile located about 583 NM S-SE of Diego Garcia in the southern Indian Ocean is packing winds to 115 knots with max significant wave heights to 34 feet (10.4 meters). Hurricane force winds extend outward 50 NM to … Continue reading →

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Dangerous Hurricane-force storm forecast off Japan

Posted on January 19, 2018 by Fred Pickhardt

A rapidly developing hurricane-force storm low is forecast over the western North Pacific off the coast of Japan January 22nd-23rd with storm to hurricane force winds and significant wave heights to 17 meters (about 56 Feet). This will be a … Continue reading →

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Hurricane-Force Storm off US East Coast

Posted on January 4, 2018 by Fred Pickhardt

A rapidly deepening and dangerous hurricane-force storm off the US East Coast is moving northeastward at 30 knots.  Winds of 60-80 knots (70-90 mph) and seas to 49 feet (about 15 meters) are expected  during the next 12 hours within … Continue reading →

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Hurricane Force storms affecting North Pacific shipping

Posted on November 27, 2017 by Fred Pickhardt

  Two Hurricane Force storms affecting North Pacific shipping   An intense 950 mb storm low over the north-central North Pacific is moving east with winds of 50-65 knots and seas to 46 feet (14 meters) within 480 NM south … Continue reading →

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Dangerous West Pacific Storm Developing

Posted on October 23, 2017 by Fred Pickhardt

  Post-Tropical Hurricane Force Storm Lan will move rapidly northeast and transfer its energy to a developing storm low that will move towards the southwestern Bering Sea and western Aleutian islands.       This developing storm will deepen very … Continue reading →

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Intense Hurricane Force North Atlantic Storm

Posted on October 21, 2017 by Fred Pickhardt

An intense 947mb hurricane force storm low over North Atlantic well east of Newfoundland is moving northeast at 15 knots.  Currently winds of 65-85 knots extend outward 120 NM south of the center with seas to 40 feet (about 12 … Continue reading →

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Super Typhoon Lan approaching Japan

Posted on October 21, 2017 by Fred Pickhardt

Super Typhoon Lan at 1200 UTC 21 October was center about 307 NM east-southeast of Kadena Air Force Base on Okinawa, Japan and was moving N-NE at 16 knots with max winds up to 130 knots.  Lan has a large … Continue reading →

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