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September 16, 2005

Watching the tropics and Martha's Vineyard

The National Hurricane Center is watching an area of stormy weather far out in the tropical Atlantic that could become the season's next tropical depression, and later a tropical storm. If so, it would be named Phillipe, the 16th tropical storm of the season. The experts have forecast between 18 and 21 for the season.

In the meantime, Ophelia continues to pull, slowly, away from the Carolina coast today. All tropical storm warnings there have been dropped. It's all about the cleanup now. But the tropical storm warnings are posted now from Watch Hill, Rhode Island to Plymouth, Mass., including Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. That means those folks can expect winds topping 39 mph within the next 24 hours. The probability map seems to put the risk at about 40 percent. Here's the forecast for Edgartown, on the Vineyard. Batten the hatches.

Here's Ophelia's forecast track. And a view from space.

Posted by Frank Roylance at 11:35 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)
Categories: Hurricanes

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18-21 storms. We are definitely going to see more than that. What is also strange is that the pacific is on the same scale as well. Did they also predict a high typhoon season?

Posted by: Nalini | September 18, 2005 7:18 AM

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This site is the Maryland Weather archive. The current Maryland Weather blog can be found here.

Frank Roylance is a reporter for The Baltimore Sun. He came to Baltimore from New Bedford, Mass. in 1980 to join the old Evening Sun. He moved to the morning Sun when the papers merged in 1992, and has spent most of his time since covering science, including astronomy and the weather. One of The Baltimore Sun's first online Web logs, the Weather Blog debuted in October 2004. In June 2006 Frank also began writing comments on local weather and stargazing for The Baltimore Sun's print Weather Page. Frank also answers readers’ weather queries for the newspaper and the blog. Frank Roylance retired in October 2011. Maryland Weather is now being updated by members of The Baltimore Sun staff

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