Dr. Jeff Masters' 2009 Hurricane Blogs

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Jeff co-founded the Weather Underground in 1995 while working on his Ph.D. at Michigan. He flew with the NOAA Hurricane Hunters from 1986-1990.

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Blogs on the hurricanes, typhoons, tropical cyclones of 2009

November 2009

October 2009

September 2009

August 2009

Hurricane warnings for Baja; 94L forming spiral bands Aug 2009
Category 4 Hurricane Jimena Approaches Baja California Aug 2009
Invest 94L and the Lesser Antilles Aug 2009
Adieu to Danny Aug 2009
Danny still weak Aug 2009
Danny weakens further; 94L worth watching Aug 2009
Danny weakens; not likely to become a hurricane Aug 2009
Danny disorganized, but generating strong winds Aug 2009
Tropical Storm Danny not impressive yet Aug 2009
Tropical Storm Danny likely to be named today Aug 2009
Hurricane Hunters find 50 - 60 mph winds in disturbance 92L north of Puerto Rico Aug 2009
Disturbance 92L getting more organized; storm surge basics explained Aug 2009
Bill is gone; Invest 92 pops up Aug 2009
Bill brushes Massachusetts; Nova Scotia gets pounded Aug 2009
Bill batters Bermuda; Canada next Aug 2009
A weakening Bill generating a major wave event for Bermuda and the U.S. coast Aug 2009
Bill weakens, but still generating huge waves Aug 2009
Bill intensifies to Category 4; globe has 5th warmest July on record Aug 2009
Impressive Bill churning huge waves; New England air pollution episode underway Aug 2009
Claudette hits Florida; Ana approaches Puerto RIco; Bill becomes our first hurricane Aug 2009
Ana, Bill, and Claudette--a rare early season triple threat Aug 2009
Ana, Bill,--and Claudette? Aug 2009
Ana and TD 3 take aim at the Lesser Antilles Aug 2009
Disturbance 90L close to tropical depression strength; TD 2 may rise again Aug 2009
TD 2 nearly dead; African disturbance 90L gathering strength Aug 2009
TD 2 struggling; new African wave bears watching Aug 2009
TD 2 forms in the Atlantic; hundreds feared dead from Typhoon Morakot; Felicia hits Aug 2009
Hawaii braces for Felicia; 99L near the Cape Verdes Islands may develop Aug 2009
African wave 99L may develop; Felicia threatens Hawaii; record rains from Morakot Aug 2009
Felicia not weakening; new African wave may develop Aug 2009
Hurricane Felicia weakening; Typhoon Morakot hits Taiwan Aug 2009
Category 4 Hurricane Felicia peaks in intensity Aug 2009
Hurricane Felicia hits Category 3; may affect Hawaii next week Aug 2009
CSU and TSR continue to predict a near-average hurricane season Aug 2009
World storm surge records Aug 2009

July 2009

August hurricane outlook Jul 2009
Late-starting hurricane seasons Jul 2009
Bill Gates takes on hurricanes Jul 2009
Invest 98L or a nor'easter? Jul 2009
Quiet in the Atlantic; total eclipse darkens Asia Jul 2009
97L fizzles; new Bahamas disturbance develops Jul 2009
High wind shear ripping into 97L Jul 2009
97L growing more organized, will bring heavy rain to the Lesser Antilles Jul 2009
Two African waves worth mentioning Jul 2009
An African wave worth watching Jul 2009
Remainder of July hurricane outlook Jul 2009
July hurricane outlook Jul 2009

June 2009

Much Ado About Nothing: Invest93L Jun 2009
A late look at Invest93L Jun 2009
Dust forecast for the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season Jun 2009
Atlantic hurricane outlook for the remainder of June Jun 2009
Western Caribbean disturbance unlikely to develop this week Jun 2009
El Niño Watch issued by NOAA; Western Caribbean development next week? Jun 2009
Average hurricane season foreseen by TSR Jun 2009
Average hurricane season foreseen by CSU, NOAA, and TSR Jun 2009
Hurricane season begins today; normal June activity expected Jun 2009

May 2009

El Niño chances rising for hurricane season May 2009
Season's first tropical depression forms May 2009
Disturbance 91L more organized, but headed out to sea May 2009
Disturbance 91L spins towards Cape Hatteras; Cyclone Aila toll at 180 May 2009
Cyclone Aila kills at least 120 in India, Bangaldesh; 91L forms May 2009
90L comes close to being the season's first named storm May 2009
Gulf of Mexico storm not likely to become a depression; storm kills 11 in Haiti May 2009
Gulf of Mexico low growing more organized May 2009
First Invest of the year peters out; Florida gets soaked May 2009
Florida poised for a substantial soaking May 2009
Gathering extratropical storm set to drench Florida, Cuba, and the Bahamas May 2009
Still watching for a potential early-season Atlantic subtropical storm May 2009
An early season Atlantic named storm looking less likely May 2009
An early start to hurricane season? May 2009

April 2009

Average hurricane season foreseen by CSU, but TSR predicts an active season Apr 2009