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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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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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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 possible over western Pacific

Posted on October 17, 2017 by Fred Pickhardt

Tropical Storm Lan over the western North Pacific about 186 NM northwest of Kyangel was moving slowly towards the northeast with max winds of 55 knots.  Wind shear is low, ocean temperatures are very warm at 30 C to 31 … Continue reading →

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Hurricane Nate Saturday Update

Posted on October 7, 2017 by Fred Pickhardt

Hurricane Nate continues to intensify over the warm Gulf of Mexico as it moves rapidly toward the north-northwest at 23 knots (26 mph). Currently max winds are 80 knots (90 mph)but conditions appear favorable for Nate to continue strengthening for … Continue reading →

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Tropical Storm Nate Upate

Posted on October 6, 2017 by Fred Pickhardt

Tropical Storm Nate is poorly organized with max winds of about 45 knots (50 mph) located 50 nm from the center and was moving just west of north at 18 knots. Nate is expected to move quickly north-northwestward for the … Continue reading →

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