No more names left for tropical systems on alphabetical list. What comes next?
It has no doubt been..
"a very active" "tropical storm season".
As you know..
"tropical storms" are given names "in alphabetical order".
However..
"as of today"..
"that list" has come to an end.
The storm team's "david siple"..
Gives us a look..
"at the 20-20 tropical season" so far..
And explains..
What "an active season means" for us "right her in the wabash valley".
///// statistically, the peak of the atlantic tropical storm season occurs during the month of september.
Thankfully, we are passed the half way point.
But we still have plenty of time for more tropical cyclones to form.
Clic} this season started with tropical storm arthur.
The list of names obviously is alphabetical and the list ends with wilfred.
So now that the entire list of names have been used.
What's next?
Clic} the world meteorological organization has designated that the list will move on now to the greek alphabet.
Starting with alpha, beta, gamma, and so on.
Clic} so what does an active tropical season mean for us here in the wabash valley?
This week has been a perfect example.
The storm team forecasted a cold front to move in on thursday.
Which it did, but with no rain.
We normally see rain and storms when a powerful cold front moves through our area.
The moisture that cause these rain and storms here in the valley usually comes from the gulf of mexico.
But as you know, no rain was in the forecast with this week's cold front.
Why?
Well we can blame it all on hurricane sally that dumped close to ten to twenty inches of rainfall in the south.
This essentially cut off any moisture to come into the wabash valley.
There have been quite a few storms this season in the gulf of mexico which did cut off that moisture transport into our area.
So where has that left us?
High and dry the latest drought monitor has most of the valley underneath drought conditions.
And with tropical storm wilfred, we can likely expect the dry weather to unfortunately continue here at home.
In the wthi studios, i'm storm team 10 meteorologist david siple.
Back to you.
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