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The National Hurricane Center is watching a new tropical storm - Noel (pronounced "nol" and rhymes with "knoll") - which formed this weekend in the Carribean and is currently a threat to Haiti and Cuba. Here is the latest advisory. Here is the forecast track. And here is the view from orbit.
Here's the forecast discussion. It does not look like this one will become a problem for the U.S. East Coast, except perhaps as a source of heavy surf.
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.
