It’s been a very quiet hurricane season, so today with a tropical storm on the horizon it’s certainly time we all paid attention.
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Tropical Storm Gonzalo threatens Dominican Republic
After a complete an utter lack of tropical depressions, tropical storms, hurricanes and indeed rain throughout this entire hurricane season, we did not see this coming. So it may surprise you to know that Tropical Storm Gonzalo is threatening to bring some rather unpleasant weather to the Dominican Republic by Tuesday/Wednesday.
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Hurricane Season 2014 expected to be “less active”
In just 2 weeks, on Sunday the 1st of June the 2014 Atlantic Hurricane Season will start, so what can we expect for the coming months?
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Today we celebrate the end of the hurricane season!
While it may not have felt like it, the last 6 months has been “hurricane season” in the Dominican Republic, and today Saturday November the 30th marks the official end of this rainy, windy season! Yippeee!
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Tropical Storm Gabrielle heading north through the Mona Passage
UPDATE: Tropical Storm Gabrielle has now been “downgraded” to Tropical Depression Gabrielle – click here to read more! Despite my optimism that “Invest 97-L” wasn’t going to develop much, yesterday the system did develop… firstly into Tropical Depression 7, and then into Tropical Storm Gabrielle. So this morning as we wake up to a serene […]
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Tropical Depression Gabrielle now headed directly at the Dominican Republic
Good news and bad news! Well the good news is that Tropical Depression Gabrielle has now been “downgraded” from a tropical storm, but the bad news is that after a westerly detour he is now headed north again – directly towards the southeast coast of the Dominican Republic. So here is a quick update to […]
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“Peak” hurricane season is underway as first August Tropical Depression develops
The “curse” of mid-August strikes again! Every year on the 15th of August (give or take a few days), the “peak” hurricane season gets underway. Today as we awake to find Tropical Depression 5 newly developed in the Atlantic ocean… so begins 6 weeks (más o menos) of constant weather watching! UPDATE (Thursday, Aug.15th, 11am): Tropical […]
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[Update July 9th] 24 hour countdown: Tropical Storm Chantal to hit the Dominican Republic with near hurricane force winds
UPDATE: July 9, 2pm – hurricane watch issued for Dominican Republic Now that Tropical Storm Chantal has crossed across the Lesser Antilles and strengthened to have maximum sustained winds of 65mph, the south-east coast of the Dominican Republic is now under hurricane watch. A hurricane watch means that hurricane conditions are possible anywhere within the […]
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Hurricane season 2013: July update
One month down – 5 more to go! So now that we are officially one month into the Hurricane Season 2013 here we bring you a tropical weather update for the Dominican Republic.
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“Active” hurricane season starts today with a maximum of 20 storms predicted
Today June 1st, marks the official start of the hurricane season in the Dominican Republic. Over the last few days we have seem several downpours throughout the country – which could be part of the “active” hurricane season that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – NOAA- have predicted in the Atlantic for this year. […]
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Hurricane season 2012 “ahead of the pace” as number of named storms reaches 12
On April 24th 2012, The Weather Channel (www.weather.com) published it’s 2012 “preseason forecast”, predicting a “less-active” season than the 1950-2011 average. Since then however, a record number of 12 named storms have developed over the Atlantic, of which 5 have developed into hurricane – a tally which puts the 2012 hurricane season significantly “ahead of […]