Archive for October, 2013

Invest 97L

Thursday, October 3rd, 2013

I’ve been watching the progress of Invest 97L very closely as it has gained both strength and organization. The NHC has warned in its 8 AM outlook that Invest 97L is about to be named a tropical storm. It will be named Karen.

I have not posted anything for the last several months because there was no apparent threat from tropical weather to the Georgia coast. Now we have a threat. The storm tracks have been pretty steady for several days to take the storm straight over Atlanta. This morning the track had shifted to the east, over Athens.

Update: 9:15 AM

The NHC has begun issuing advisories for Tropical Storm Karen. The official forecast track has Karen passing over Tallahassee, FL Sunday morning and proceeding north over Alabama. Karen is forecast to be a subtropical storm by that time.