Tropical Disturbance 92L in the southern Gulf of Mexico’s Bay of Campeche was spreading heavy rains over southern Mexico and Central America on Wednesday, and it has the potential to develop into Tropical Storm Claudette by Friday. Regardless of development, 92L will bring heavy rains and dangerous flash flooding to the central U.S. Gulf Coast […]
Author Archives: Jeff Masters
Jeff Masters, Ph.D., worked as a hurricane scientist with the NOAA Hurricane Hunters from 1986-1990. After a near-fatal flight into category 5 Hurricane Hugo, he left the Hurricane Hunters to pursue a safer passion - earning a 1997 Ph.D. in air pollution meteorology from the University of Michigan.
In 1995, he co-founded the Weather Underground, and served as its chief meteorologist and on its Board of Directors until it was sold to the Weather Company in 2012.
Between 2005-2019, his Category 6 blog was one of the Internet's most popular and widely quoted sources of extreme weather and climate change information.
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