Tag Archives: weather

Hurricane naming for the 2016 season

[National Hurricane Center] Since 1953, Atlantic tropical storms had been named from lists originated by the National Hurricane Center. They are now maintained and updated through a strict procedure by an international committee of the World Meteorological Organization.

The list below is used in rotation and re-cycled every six years, i.e., the 2016 list will be used again in 2022. The only time that there is a change in the list is if a storm is so deadly or costly that the future use of its name on a different storm would be inappropriate for reasons of sensitivity. If that occurs,

Continue reading Hurricane naming for the 2016 season

FOXweather website offline

Our websites – FOXweather, FOXlive and FOXnews –  were  again unreachable from Tuesday, 15-Mar-2016/14:30h to 16:54h ADT and from 18:09h to 18:23h ADT due to an outage at our web hosting provider. The cause is under investigation.

There’s something screwy going on …

Twitter, WeatherUnderground and WeatherCloud feeds were unaffected and kept up-to-date.

No weather related data was lost.

Thank you for your patience.

El Niño is expected to weaken but slowly

2015 recorded one of the strongest El Niños. From November it has been slowly weakening with a transition expected to neutral conditions by next summer, although some models predict El Niño to last for much of 2016. Let’s summarize the main facts.

[©2016 WeatherCast] By historical standards to be classified as a complete El Niño episode, the Oceanic Niño Index (ONI) needs to have a positive ONI greater or equal to +0.5C in the Sea Surface Temperature (SST) for a period of at least 5 consecutive months. Continue reading El Niño is expected to weaken but slowly

FOXweather website offline

Our websites – FOXweather, FOXlive and FOXnews –  were  again unreachable from Monday, 29-Feb-2016/20:18h to Tuesday, 1-Mar-2016/03:23h AST and outdated until 03:58h AST due to an outage at our web hosting provider. The cause is under investigation.

Twitter, WeatherUnderground and WeatherCloud feeds were unaffected and kept up-to-date.

No weather related data was lost.

Thank you for your patience.