Sub-tropical storm forms in Atlantic 5 months ahead of season
National Hurricane Center weather outlook in the Atlantic, 13/1/16
(CNS): An out of season subtropical storm has formed over the far eastern Atlantic, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami. The rare emergence of a storm this early in the year, only the fourth time a storm has formed in January since 1851, according to the NHC, serves as an illustration of the increasingly unpredictable and unseasonal weather that the world now faces.
On Wednesday evening, Sub-Tropical Storm Alex claimed the first name on the list for the 2016 hurricane season. Located some 785 miles south-southwest of the Azores, the storm is heading north at 14mph and poses no threat to the Cayman area.
With maximum sustained winds of 50mph and higher gusts, weather experts are not expecting the system to increase in intensity, though an increase in forward speed is expected over the next 48 hours. Alex is expected to become an extra-tropical cyclone before reaching the Azores on Friday. Residents there, however, can still expect gale force winds and an accumulations of 3 to 5 inches of rain and up to 7 inches in isolated areas, with life-threatening flash floods and mud slides.
Category: Science & Nature, Weather
Just saying, we are not just “5 months ahead of season”. We are also just 1.5 months out of season!
Is this trying to show us how fast global warming is effecting our Islands ?
Not that we can do jack about it!
Looky here, Alden recognizes same sex partnerships and the heavens start a storm. Or maybe its global warming, which noboby here seems to believe in anyway, despite the fact we could be a few feet under water in the not too distant future. How ironic if the most valuable and only place worth living on these islands would be mount trashmore.
This planet is on the brink of ecological catastrophe that will wipe out human kind, but everyone pretends it is not happening, the Cayman Island including. Build concrete piers all you want, the island will be deserted in the near future anyway. It could be the Dump, flooding or a major hurricane that will teach people a lesson that we are a part of ecosystem.
Really…if it is not forecast to effect us then why report? Some people will just panic for no reason!
This is an anomaly. That is why it is reported.
Would you believe that there is actually a world outside the Cayman Islands and some things that happen in that world can sometimes affect Cayman or be of interest to Cayman?? The interest here is that it is unusual, and if you read deeper you will know that the Atlantic is about 5 degrees warmer than normal, so we might see increased activity. Hard to believe that Cayman is not the center of the world, I know, but you will get used to it.
Maybe the Storm is lost, just like Cayman’s Government?
5 months early or 6 weeks late?
6 weeks late for sure….don’t know why they always have to twist the truth….isn’t it more practical and logical to say 6 weeks late instead of 5 months early?
Five months early because early season storms stream off the African coast, moving fast east to west, like this one, whereas late season storms tend to start within the south western Caribbean and move North and east.
Slight correction..Alex formed from a non-tropical low that was north-east of Bermuda several days ago and has moved in a general direction from the west…to the east. It has more characteristics of a late season storm than an early June storm. Another way of looking at it, is the season is later [ending] than the normal November 30th cessation date, due to many other climatological factors.
Caymans weather centre needs you!!
Probably Chinas fault, all that pollution their emitting must cause some s**** to happen. Itll soon be snowing here too
Wow< I just can't wait to order a snowboard to use at Mount Trashmore!!