Another Little Storm COLIN, Will Hit USA, Florida This Time

JUNE 6, 2016

Menacing clouds gather over Florida as Colin approaches. (Image credit:ABC)

After Bonnie, another tropical storm will drench the US east coast. Tropical storm Colin has formed in the Gulf of Mexico and it threatens Florida in next 20 hours.

This storm is small. It's central minimum pressure is 1008. Though by the time it hits the Florida coast by 0000 hours GMT Tuesday it will have dropped to 998 hPa.

The National Hurricane Center estimates its winds to be 65 km/h. By landfall it might rise to 70-80 km/h.

Colin is going to bring heavy rains to Florida. Significant precipitation is also expected in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina under the influence of this storm.

Colin is going to be fast moving. By Wednesday it will be in the Atlantic Ocean. It will then turn into a mid latitude tropical cyclone as it moves away into the ocean.

Monsoon to be active soon

Tropical storm Colin will bring heaviest rainfall to northern Florida.

Hurricane JOAQUIN May Not Hit US: Latest Updates

Hurricane Joaquín  is giving authorities in many countries nightmares. It has already turned into a category 2 storm with winds in excess of 175 km/h and is likely to intensify even more.

It has already started battering central Bahamas as it inches closer. Friday will be the worst for that country as the fury of nature will stand atop the islands before moving into the Atlantic Ocean.

US authorities are already on high alert as most forecast models say the system will make landfall into the eastern seaboard just near New York on October 6, 2015. And another worrying aspect is that many weather experts say Joaquín could well turn into a category 5 howling monster.

The imagination boggles.

But one forecast model is going against the herd of computer models.

The European ECMWF in its latest data predicts the hurricane is not going to make landfall into the USA ( Or  Canada) but will move away harmlessly into the North Atlantic.

It will gives the creeps to the busy shipping lanes from Europe to North America but the USA will remain safe.

The ECMWF model has been uncannily accurate as compared to other forecast models, especially NOAA's GFS.

Time will tell.

Hurricane Joaquin satellite image . 0715 GMT, October 1, 2015