• Hurricane Watch Net on Alert for Developing Atlantic Basin Storms

    From ARRL de WD1CKS@VERT/WLARB to QST on Fri Jul 6 21:05:22 2018
    07/06/2018

    Hurricane Watch New (HWN[1]) Manager Bobby Graves, KB5HAV, says the Atlantic Hurricane Basin seems to want people's attention. A tropical cyclone may be developing off the southeastern coast of North Carolina that could become a named storm, which would be Chris. As of 1400 UTC on July 6, the HWN was at alert level 2 - "monitoring mode."

    "A few computer models show this system growing and moving up along the US east coast into Nova Scotia, Canada," Graves said today. "How strong it will be, if development occurs, is unknown."

    Meanwhile, Tropical Cyclone Beryl intensified overnight to become the first hurricane of the 2018 Atlantic Basin Hurricane Season, which began on June 1. A compact storm, Beryl is predicted to remain east of the Lesser Antilles through early Sunday. Satellite data indicate maximum sustained winds of nearly 75 MPH with higher gusts, and some strengthening is forecast.

    While Beryl is forecast to quickly weaken or dissipate before reaching the Lesser Antilles, some rain and wind are expected to impact those islands early next week.

    "Be advised, should the Hurricane Watch Net be called into action, 20-meter propagation has been very lousy of late and we may have to operate on both 20 and 40 meters (14.325 MHz and 7.268 MHz, respectively)," Graves said.

    "Should either storm become a threat, the Hurricane Watch Net will be ready for action. The tropics are getting very interesting!"

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    [1] http://www.hwn.org/

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