Happy New Year!*

*Well, at least it is the beginning of the year for the southern hemisphere. Tropical Cyclone ONE in the SInd basin becomes the first storm of the 2013 southern hemisphere season with an initial intensity of 35kts. The disturbance has been out there for several days now, then yesterday it began to rapidly organize. It is not fore casted to reach hurricane strength (65kts) as now, but experience has shown me that intensity forecasts are subject to significant change. Only thing left to do is get out the streamers and the firecrackers; the southern hemisphere on!

(sadly, the right images are not available to make a summary for this storm yet, blame EUMETSAT)