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Hurricane Storm Dorian Aug 28 - Sep 6 2019

September 8, 2019 10:38 am
Tropical Storm Dorian was named at 21:00 UTC on August 24 2019. While it made one of the closest approaches to Barbados in history, it passed into the Caribbean Sea and has it heading past Puerto Rico. It then gained Category 5 status and devastating the Bahamas before turning to the US. It paralleled the US coast before making a brief landfall over Cape Hatteras,NC before heading out into the Atlantic.
  • Hurricane Dorian - Final analyses from 8 Sept 2019

    As Dorian moves away from North America, it is worth doing a final bit of comparisons over various affected regions.…
  • Hurricane Dorian from 6 September

    Hurricane Dorian weakened to a category 1 storm overnight, and has just made landfall on Cape Hatteras this morning, according…
  • Sentinel and Day Night Band analysis over Bahamas on 5 Sept

    As mentioned in the previous post regarding Dorian on 5 September 2019, the region around Grand Bahama and Abaco Island…
  • Category 3 Hurricane Dorian from morning of 5 September

    Hurricane Dorian strengthened to a category 3 storm last night with winds currently at 115 mph, according to the latest…
  • A look at flooding on Grand Bahama Island from Sentinel-1

    As mentioned in this post, the Bahama Islands continue to be under clouds, preventing traditional visual observations of flood mapping.…
  • Usage of NUCAPS in hurricane forecasting.

    As mentioned in a previous post, forecasters at the National Hurricane Center rely on aircraft to drop radiosondes (aptly named…
  • Category 2 Hurricane Dorian from morning of 4 September

    Hurricane Dorian continues to weaken after battering the Bahamas. As many people have seen, the Sentinel-1 SAR imagery from 2…
  • First look at flooding in the Bahamas from SAR

    As mentioned in this post, when a region is cloudy, such as the Bahamas are currently, traditional analysis for flooding…
  • Category 3 Hurricane Dorian from morning of 3 Sept 2019

    As of the 0900UTC (5am EDT) Public advisory, Dorian continues to be stationary but is now a Category 3 storm…
  • Category 5 Hurricane Dorian from morning of 2 Sept 2019

    As of the 10am EDT (1200UTC) special advisory Hurricane Dorian was continuing to sit over Grand Bahama island as a…
  • Category 5 Hurricane Dorian from morning of 1 Sept 2019

    As of 1200UTC on 1 September, Hurricane Dorian became an extremely dangerous Category 5 storm with winds of 160 mph.…
  • Major Hurricane Dorian from morning of 31 Aug

    As people are aware, at 0030 on 31 August, Hurricane Dorian strengthened to a major Category 4 Hurricane overnight, with…
  • Hurricane Dorian from 30 August

    As of the 8am AST (1200UTC) Public advisory, the National Hurricane Center mentioned that Hurricane Dorian had winds of 110mph,…
  • Hurricane Dorian from 29 August

    To start, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands were cloudy at the time of the S-NPP and NOAA-20 passes.…
  • Tropical Storm Dorian from 28 August

    This morning has seen Dorian strengthen to having 60mph winds as of the 1200 UTC  public advisory on 28 August…

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