National Hurricane Center outlook for the Gulf, Caribbean and Atlantic basins on 8 September 2010
Worldwide activity on 8 September 2010
August and so far September as well have generated plenty of tropical cyclone activity worldwide. Both the Atlantic and Western Pacific have been particularly active basins.
Currently on the larger Atlantic basin we have former tropical storm HERMINE, now a tropical depression, over central Texas to the NW of Austin on a track toward Abilene and Wichita Falls generating copious rain for the last couple of days, which have caused flash floods and plenty of problems over a wide swath of Lone Star State.
Visible light satellite view of Tropical Storm HERMINE on 8 September 2010 at 0845 EST while storm moved over central Texas.
In the Caribbean just south off the coast of Hispaniola the remnants of GASTON appear to be regrouping as the system moves westward while generating large amounts of rain over both the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Far behind, some 2000 miles, in Hurricane Alley there is a large tropical wave to the SW of the Cape Verde Islands moving westward. Other minor tropical waves are over equatorial Africa also moving westward along the always busy ‘assembly line’.
Visible light satellite view of the remnants of Tropical Storm GASTON as if affected Hispaniola on 8 September 2010, while it appeared to be sterngthening as it tracked westward over the Caribbean.
Atlantic-wide GOES satellite view for the aviation industry on 8 september 2010 at 0745 EST showing three active systems in the larger basin.
Composite mosaic of the Atlantic basin and equatorial Africa showing cyclonic activity on 8 September 2010
Over in the western Pacific there is Tropical Storm ELEVEN just SW of Taiwan moving toward mainland China and to the north weakening tropical storm MALOU is over central Japan to the north of Kyoto and west of Tokyo tracking toward the northeast. There is a triangular region from just east of the Philipinnes to northern Vietnam and the Korean peninsula that has seen constant tropical cyclone activity over the past several weeks.
A mosaic composite of several satellite views showing the Pacific basin. The red dashed outline indicates the location of a large triangular region that has seen constant 5tropical cyclone activity this year
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