TEXAS TROPICS

Former Invest 94L/PTC2/Tropical Storm/Hurricane Bonnie,  finally meets her demise becoming post-tropical on July 9th after a 17 day journey off the African coast. Having started as a strong tropical wave south of the Cabo Verde Islands back on June 23rd, and almost immediately getting an AOI (area of interest) tag, followed by an Invest tag (94L) the same day, the system made the trek across the Atlantic, got tagged Potential Tropical Cyclone #2 on June 27th, as it approached the southern Windward Islands and coast of South America. Still not attaining a closed circulation to become a cyclone, PTC2 scraped across the northern coast of South America before entering the southwestern Caribbean. Finally on July 1st, a closed circulation was found and Bonnie was born. Bonnie then slammed into the southern coast of Nicaragua as a tropical storm, maintained tropical storm status crossing Central America and splashed down in the eastern Pacific, thus keeping the name Bonnie. The 1st such ...

The 1st month of the 2022 Atlantic Hurricane Season is in the books, and though there were a few features, only 1 named system came from it. On the very 1st "official" day of the season (June 1), we had an Invest tagged near the Yucatan Peninsula ( 91L ). This system was part of a broad low in the NW Caribbean and the remnants of what was once Hurricane Agatha in the Pacific. Those remnants crossed the Isthmus of Tehuantepec from the Pacific and emerged into the Bay of Campeche. With the system projected to head to Florida, and be there within 48 hours, on June 2nd the NHC gave it the designation of Potential Tropical Cyclone #1 (PTC1). A ton of shear was present in the Gulf of Mexico, and that shear remained present during PTC1's entire trip to the Florida coast. Any center that tried to form had convection completely blown away from it. By the 3rd, PTC1 was making it's way across Florida, sorta making landfall between Naples and Ft. Myers. Sorta because there'...