CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — In this week's Hot Topics in the Tropics, we haven't had a whole lot of 'hot topics' to track here. Now that August has begun, that means hurricane season is kicking into high ...

Remember a few weeks ago when the tropics were quiet in the Atlantic, yet we had three to four tropical systems in the Pacific, and now that trend has seemingly flipped? There's a reason for that.

ABSTRACT The precursor signals of convection initiation associated with the Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO) in boreal winter were investigated through the diagnosis of the 40-yr ECMWF Re-Analysis (ERA ...

Given the quick start we’ve seen to the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season--with Tropical Storms Danielle and Colin the earliest third and fourth named storms on record--the Atlantic may not need much ...