Chance of having a White Christmas across the lower 48 states
Chances of having a White Christas across the Lower 48…. Yes, the US will be under the influence of an El Niño this Christmas Holiday. An El Niño does influence the snowfall amounts . For the most part an EL Nino has a negative impact, but that does not mean everyone will not have a […]
Newsletter
The latest version of the Ocean Marine Nav Newsletter is ready to go. It will be sent this week. However, if you have been forwarding the newsletter to someone who has a common interest in the topics, especially in weather forecast and ocean routing, they can get their own copy. Have them send an email […]
Hurricane Season could get interesting later summer
Sea surface temps are on the warm side as per the below data that comes from the Multiscale Ultrahigh Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (MUR SST) project, based at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Even though we had a busy season, it does not necessarily mean a busy season for the overall Hurricane season. The peak of […]
Tropical Depression 5. Where did that come from….
Did you hear…. late this morning (July 4th) The National Hurricane Center upgraded an area of convection SW of Bermuda to Tropical Depression 5. The area is not well organized and is borderline, very borderline, tropical depression. Take a look at the latest satellite data. There has been no real change in the structure of […]
All quiet across the Western Pacific
I can’t remember the last time the tropical western Pacific Ocean has been so quiet. The last Tropical Cyclone was TS Nuri that first formed east of the Philippines on June 10th that slowly worked its way across the Philippines to the East China Sea through June 15th. Since then, there have been no official […]
Hurricane Season 2020
Hurricane Season starts in a little over 4months from now. Before you know, our attention will shift from snow storms to how active the 2020 Hurricane Season will be. It is a bit early to get any predictions. However, Colorado State University has put out some info on the coming season. As of now there […]
Updated Web Site
it has been a little while since I posted an update, but the outfit that had been hosting the Ocean Marine Nav web site decided to close down, so it became necessary to move the site. It has take some time to move to a new provider and move over as much of the site […]