by John Bryant | Nov 15, 2024 | Weather and Climate, Meteorologist Expert Witness
Spaghetti Plots Unveiled: The Secret to Tracking Tropical Storm Sara’s Next Move When monitoring tropical storms like Tropical Storm Sara, one term you may encounter often is “spaghetti plots.” These colorful, sometimes chaotic-looking maps are a...
by John Bryant | Nov 15, 2024 | Weather and Climate, Meteorologist Expert Witness
In the latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center, Tropical Storm Sara continues to flex its atmospheric muscle while unleashing heavy rainfall across Belize, the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, and northern Honduras. The storm’s center, currently hugging...
by John Bryant | Nov 14, 2024 | Weather and Climate, Meteorologist Expert Witness
Sara’s Current Status: Slow and Steady, with Some Growing Pains Sara was officially designated as a tropical storm after showing off some new bands of intense thunderstorms. Think of those bands as the swirling “arms” you see in the satellite images,...
by John Bryant | Nov 14, 2024 | Weather and Climate
I just got off the call with NOAA’s Model Evaluating Group. We evaluate computer models and talk about certain individuals who are actively researching weather models. The goal is to analyze the models and how they can be improved. Here are some of the key...
by John Bryant | Nov 13, 2024 | Meteorologist Expert Witness, Weather and Climate
For context, the bottom right part of the image shows the storm with all the bright colors and that area is South Florida. Model runs today need to be carefully watched as I expect changes in the track. The current weather disturbance deep in the Caribbean is...
by John Bryant | Nov 12, 2024 | Meteorologist Expert Witness, Weather and Climate
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is monitoring a tropical wave in the central Caribbean Sea. While currently disorganized, this system has a greater than 50% chance of developing into a tropical depression or storm within the next seven days as it moves westward...