Hot on the heels of Ivan... meet Jeanne. She just made it to hurricane status (congratulations, Jeanne!) but still doesn't look nearly as organized as Ivan, which is probably why no one seems real worried about her. She's just clipped the northern shore of Puerto Rico and appears headed straight for Florida, Frances-style.
have i mentioned how eerie it is that two of the hurricanes that have appeared this season (frances, jeanne) are named after the middle names of my parents, whose house is in florida?
Atlantic hurricane season officially ends on Nov 30..that's potentially another two and a half months of tropical cyclone activity. What's the chances of reaching the end of the alphabet (unlikely but not impossible) re. names for this years storms, and who decides the next storm's name, should that happen?
Atlantic hurricane season officially ends on Nov 30..that's potentially another two and a half months of tropical cyclone activity. What's the chances of reaching the end of the alphabet (unlikely but not impossible) re. names for this years storms, and who decides the next storm's name, should that happen?
26 atlantic hurricanes in a single season? (the pacific has it's own separate names each year) well, at that point, you really couldn't ignore that we had truly screwed up the earth's environment. the names, i believe i recall from my childhood, are decided before the season starts, and i think every storm must have a unique name, even if it's a different spelling, just so they can be differentiated over the years (so, like, there will only ever be one hurricane "andrew" or "camille.")
p.s. hmmm... karl. the name of my senior year roommate in college. maybe a higher power is just out to get a message to me. though there are easier ways to do it... like just post here at AI.
and i think every storm must have a unique name, even if it's a different spelling, just so they can be differentiated over the years (so, like, there will only ever be one hurricane "andrew" or "camille.")
Storms that get large, or are otherwise notable, get their names retired. If not notable, the names get recycled.
Ivan the Terrible, the storm that just won't go away! Would you believe this...Ivan is baaaack! After a long trek across the Atlantic, trashing islands all along the way, it hit Alabama and the Florida panhandle as a Cat. 3 storm with 130 mph winds in the eyewall....then it weakened to a tropical storm, then a depression and then a weak circulation which did a big loop de loop all the way back down the east coast, crossed Florida into the Gulf of Mexico and reformed as a tropical depression south of Alabama (!). Now its a minimal tropical storm again and is threatening the Texas Coast....will this thing *ever* go away???
Cool sat photo from NOAA showing four (yup, four) named storms in one image. TS Ivan is nearing the Texas coast, Hurricane Jeanne is gathering strength off Florida, Hurricane Karl is whipping up the North Atlantic, and TS Lisa is drifting in the mid-Atlantic.
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Originally posted by Towel
Hot on the heels of Ivan... meet Jeanne. She just made it to hurricane status (congratulations, Jeanne!) but still doesn't look nearly as organized as Ivan, which is probably why no one seems real worried about her. She's just clipped the northern shore of Puerto Rico and appears headed straight for Florida, Frances-style.
have i mentioned how eerie it is that two of the hurricanes that have appeared this season (frances, jeanne) are named after the middle names of my parents, whose house is in florida?
http://www.weather.com/newscenter/tr...eatlantic.html
Atlantic hurricane season officially ends on Nov 30..that's potentially another two and a half months of tropical cyclone activity. What's the chances of reaching the end of the alphabet (unlikely but not impossible) re. names for this years storms, and who decides the next storm's name, should that happen?
Originally posted by sammi jo
Oh look....now we have yet another one, lined up behind Jeanne: "Welcome", Tropical Storm Karl.
http://www.weather.com/newscenter/tr...eatlantic.html
Atlantic hurricane season officially ends on Nov 30..that's potentially another two and a half months of tropical cyclone activity. What's the chances of reaching the end of the alphabet (unlikely but not impossible) re. names for this years storms, and who decides the next storm's name, should that happen?
26 atlantic hurricanes in a single season? (the pacific has it's own separate names each year) well, at that point, you really couldn't ignore that we had truly screwed up the earth's environment. the names, i believe i recall from my childhood, are decided before the season starts, and i think every storm must have a unique name, even if it's a different spelling, just so they can be differentiated over the years (so, like, there will only ever be one hurricane "andrew" or "camille.")
p.s. hmmm... karl. the name of my senior year roommate in college. maybe a higher power is just out to get a message to me. though there are easier ways to do it... like just post here at AI.
Originally posted by rok
and i think every storm must have a unique name, even if it's a different spelling, just so they can be differentiated over the years (so, like, there will only ever be one hurricane "andrew" or "camille.")
Storms that get large, or are otherwise notable, get their names retired. If not notable, the names get recycled.
The 50-year average is 9.8 named storms a season, 5.8 of them hurricanes, and 2.5 cat3 or higher.
The 10-year average (since 1995) has been 13, 7.6, and 3.6.
This year's prediction was for an above-average season of 13-15, 6-8, and 2-4.
So far, we're already up to 11, 6, and 3.
- Ten named Atlantic storms in August was an all-time record.
- March 2004 saw the first hurricane in the South Atlantic since satellite imaging began in 1966.
- OTOH, the Eastern Pacific has had an unusually quiet storm season.
Originally posted by curiousuburb
The Political Outsider crowd has come up with an explanation of sorts.
Just for the record, Palm Beach and St. Lucie counties got hit pretty hard by Frances. It was a big hurricane.