Hurricane Season comes to an end.

Well today marks the end of the Hurricane Season for 2009.  A pretty quiet year, if I would say so myself....  Only eleven named storms, as you can see below...  and only three of the storms were even a Cat.  Pretty quiet year in the Atlantic, however the Eastern Pacific was twice as active as the Atlantic.   There were a lot of factors playing into the lack of storms to our east, a lot strong upper level winds, and slightly cooler than average water temperatures.

Atlantic named storms for 2009:

#	Name	Date	Wind	Pres	Cat
1	Tropical Depression ONE	28-29 MAY	30	1006	-
2	Tropical Storm ANA	11-17 AUG	35		-
3	Hurricane-4 BILL	15-24 AUG	115		4
4	Tropical Storm CLAUDETTE	16-18 AUG	45		-
5	Tropical Storm DANNY	26-29 AUG	50		-
6	Tropical Storm ERIKA	01-04 SEP	50	1004	-
7	Hurricane-3 FRED	07-12 SEP	105	958	3
8	Tropical Depression EIGHT	25-26 SEP	30	1008	-
9	Tropical Storm GRACE	05-06 OCT	60	986	-
10	Tropical Storm HENRI	06-08 OCT	45	1005	-
11	Hurricane-2 IDA	04-10 NOV	90		2

Back home, we are keeping an eye on the storm system coming from the south, which will be arriving Wednesday into Thursday.  Yesterday the models were showing that the storms system would be bringing cooler air in sooner, and resulting in the first possibilites of accumulation snow this season.  The models have slowly been trending toward the warmer temperatures lingering a little longer, and resulting in more rain, before the initial switch over to snow.  The latest models are showing the switch over to snow overnight Wednesday night and currently showing a very light accumulation or possibly just a light dusting.  The difference between one and two degrees can mean the difference between the rain/snow transition being bumped a few hours one way or the other.... Needless to say, on the back side of this storm, we will see our coldest temperatures of the season, and making it hard to even get above freezing for Thursday and Friday.  It is a touchy system, and as always I will be on here daily with a blog update on it... Until then, take it easy and have a good one!!

25 days left!!

Best,
Andrew Buck Michael