A hurricane blows in on a Florida beach. Read full article: Kissimmee leaders mobilize aid for victims of Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica Lines painted on the center of a road. The Madden Julian ...

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 ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - The Pinpoint Weather Team is taking viewer requests on weather topics. A viewer asked Chief Meteorologist Mike McCall what the MJO is. It’s a bit long to explain in a ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO), the dominant mode of tropical intraseasonal variability, provides a major source of tropical and extratropical predictability on a subseasonal time scale. This ...