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  • Amateur Radio Activated for Late Season Hurricane

    From ARRL de WD1CKS@VERT/WLARB to QST on Friday, November 15, 2024 02:50:50
    11/08/2024

    A rare November hurricane made landfall in western Cuba as a Category 3 storm
    Wednesday and continued to move slowly toward the northwest Thursday morning.
    Volunteer ham radio operators were there to provide surface reports to the
    National Hurricane Center in Miami.

    Hurricane Rafael left Cuba's 10 million residents without power and on Thursday
    afternoon was a Category 2 storm moving away from Cuba and heading northwest
    towards the Gulf of Mexico. Initial predictions showed the storm could have
    been headed for Florida and Louisiana, but all watches and warnings in those
    areas have been discontinued.

    The Hurricane Watch Net (HWN), the VoIP Hurricane Net, and WX4NHC, the amateur
    radio station at the National Hurricane Center (NHC), were activated until
    Wednesday night but are now secured and continuing to monitor the storm.

    The NHC predicts that Rafael should remain a hurricane for the next couple of
    days as it moves into a drier air mass in the south-central Gulf of Mexico this
    weekend and early next week.

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