Where's Gustav heading?
   Gustav is still in the Caribbean Sea, but it has everyone wondering where it will make landfall.    About the only thing that seems a good bet now is that it will end up in the Gulf of Mexico. ...

Tropical Storm Gustav forms
   Well it happened.    The area of clouds in the Caribbean that I blogged about this morning spun up into Tropical Storm Gustav. It now has 60 mph winds as it moves to the northwest.    Ordinarily that direction ...

Tropical disturbance getting organized
     While everyone has been watching Tropical Storm Fay make a record-setting four landfalls, another system appears to be taking on life in the Caribbean.     The National Hurricane Center issued a special tropical disturbance statement this morning noting ...

Hurricane forecast projections upped
    Government forecasters appear even more confident now this hurricane season will be above normal.    The Climate Prediction Center boosted the probability of an active season from 65 percent in May to 85 percent now.    Odds are ...

The Perseids revisited
   If a cloudy sky or work schedule kept you from seeing last week’s Perseid meteor shower, there’s still hope to get a glimpse.    Spaceweather.com has a four-page photo gallery of the meteor shower. It includes everything from composite ...

Improving hurricane forecasting
    I’ve been impressed with how far hurricane forecasting has come in the last five years or so.    But there’s an effort under way to make those forecasts even more reliable.    The Bush administration chipped in $13 ...

Don't forget
    Just a reminder to my fellow sky watchers that the Perseid meteor shower should peak on the morning of Aug. 12.    But you don’t have to wait until then to get a peak. I was sitting on ...

Twin tropical troublemakers?
   The tropical Atlantic Ocean is getting active again.    There are two areas being watched by the National Hurricane Center for possible development. Both are between the Windward Islands and Africa and both are moving westward.    The hurricane ...

Keeping tabs on Edouard
    If you've got friends or relatives living in the Houston-Galveston area, you might be interested in keeping up with Tropical Storm Edouard.    For radar, try the Houston-Galveston National Weather Service radar site. You can check the short- ...