| Jim's kickoff show is tonight. As a reminder, because there will always be some people who don't prepare or evacuate, it only takes one storm. It could be the least active or most active season on record and you can get hit. Be prepared: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/prepare/ready.php The NHC blog had great blog posts during hurricane preparedness week last month: https://noaanhc.wordpress.com/ But the key thing is, evacuate when told. Here is the first Atlantic outlook of the season... TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 200 AM EDT WED JUN 1 2016 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: The NOAA Weather Prediction Center is issuing advisories on Post-Tropical Cyclone Bonnie, located about 60 miles south of Wilmington, North Carolina. Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 5 days. Today marks the first day of the Atlantic hurricane season, which will run until November 30. Long-term averages for the number of named storms, hurricanes, and major hurricanes are 12, 6, and 3, respectively. The list of names for 2016 is as follows: Name Pronunciation Name Pronunciation ------------------------------------------------------------- Alex AL-leks Lisa LEE-suh Bonnie BAH-nee Matthew MATH-yoo Colin KAH-lihn Nicole nih-KOHL Danielle dan-YELL Otto AHT-toh Earl URR-ull Paula PAHL-luh Fiona fee-OH-nuh Richard RIH-churd Gaston ga-STAWN Shary SHAHR-ee Hermine her-MEEN Tobias toh-BEE-uss Ian EE-an Virgine vir-JIN-ee Julia JOO-lee-uh Walter WALL-tur Karl KAR-ull Two tropical cyclones have already formed this year, Hurricane Alex in January and Tropical Storm Bonnie in May. The next named storm that forms this season will be named Colin. This product, the Tropical Weather Outlook, briefly describes significant areas of disturbed weather and their potential for tropical cyclone formation during the next five days. The issuance times of this product are 2 AM, 8 AM, 2 AM, and 8 PM EDT. After the change to standard time in November, the issuance times are 1 AM, 7 AM, 1 PM, and 7 PM EST. A Special Tropical Weather Outlook will be issued to provide updates, as necessary, in between the regularly scheduled issuances of the Tropical Weather Outlook. Special Tropical Weather Outlooks will be issued under the same WMO and AWIPS headers as the regular Tropical Weather Outlooks. A standard package of products, consisting of the tropical cyclone public advisory, the forecast/advisory, the cyclone discussion, and a wind speed probability product, is issued every six hours for all ongoing tropical cyclones. In addition, a special advisory package may be issued at any time to advise of significant unexpected changes or to modify watches or warnings. The Tropical Cyclone Update is a brief statement to inform of significant changes in a tropical cyclone or to post or cancel watches or warnings. It is used in lieu of or to precede the issuance of a special advisory package. Tropical Cyclone Updates, which can be issued at any time, can be found under WMO header WTNT61-65 KNHC, and under AWIPS header MIATCUAT1-5. All National Hurricane Center text and graphical products are available on the web at www.hurricanes.gov. You can also interact with NHC on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/NWSNHC. Notifications are available via Twitter when select National Hurricane Center products are issued. Information about our Atlantic Twitter feed is available at www.hurricanes.gov/twitter.shtml. $$ Forecaster Brown |