Hurricane facts/trivia

[Romulus111VADT]

With all the Tropical Storms and Hurricanes that have been in the Atlantic this year. I got curious as to what the most powerful hurricane on record was. Well it was a hurricane that hit the Florida Keys in 1935. It wasn't named anything other than 1935 Fla Keys hurricane. It was a category 5. With 892 millibars and a barometric pressure of 26.35.

1969's Camille ranks #2- Cat 5 - 909 mlb and 26.84 bp
1992's Andrew ranks # 3- Cat 5 - 922 mlb and 27.23 bp
1989's Hugo ranks #10- Cat 4 - 934 mlb and 27.58, it is tied with an un-named hurricane in 1856 know as the Long Island storm.

Rita is presently a Cat 5 - 897 mlb and 26.78 bp
Katrina was a Cat 4 - 918 mlb and

[Katahu]

So what you are trying to say is that the lower the pressure, the stronger the hurricane. I noticed that the high ranking hurricanes have a lower number on the pressure as compared to the lower ranking hurricanes on record.

[Craig.]

So what you are trying to say is that the lower the pressure, the stronger the hurricane. I noticed that the high ranking hurricanes have a lower number on the pressure as compared to the lower ranking hurricanes on record.

Correct. the less pressure in the air, the easier it is for the air to flow, thus the wind will move alot faster. or something like that.

[Saitek]

Interesting. I understand that a bit better anyway.

[Pinchaser...]

I wonder when the storms started getting named?

[Romulus111VADT]

I wonder when the storms started getting named?

From 1950 to 1952, tropical cyclones of the North Atlantic Ocean were identified by the phonetic alphabet (Able-Baker-Charlie-etc.), but in 1953 the US Weather Bureau switched to women's names. In 1979, the WMO and the US National Weather Service (NWS) switched to a list of names that also included men's names.

[Romulus111VADT]

So what you are trying to say is that the lower the pressure, the stronger the hurricane. I noticed that the high ranking hurricanes have a lower number on the pressure as compared to the lower ranking hurricanes on record.

Correct....

[TacitBlue]

According to MSNBC, the national weather sevice is worried that they might run out of names this year. If that happens, then they start using Greek letters. Wouldn't "Hurrican Omikron" sound scarey?

[Romulus111VADT]

According to MSNBC, the national weather sevice is worried that they might run out of names this year. If that happens, then they start using Greek letters. Wouldn't "Hurrican Omikron" sound scarey?

If memory serves me correct. The most named tropical storms and hurricanes were 21 in one season and that happened in I believe 1933 (?) or was it 1935(?),
dah....hmmm....scatches head.....

[WebbPA]

Everything you ever wanted to know about hurricanes, from NOAA.

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/tcfaqHED.html

[Craig.]

Arlene
Bret
Cindy
Dennis
Emily
Franklin
Gert
Harvey
Irene
Jose
Katrina
Lee
Maria
Nate
Ophelia
Philippe
Rita
Stan
Tammy
Vince
Wilma

This years storm names. Then yup it goes to the greek alphabet.

[Saitek]

So four more have come up since Rita?  :(

[tvale80]

no new storms have formed since Rita, thats just this years list of names

[Craig.]

[quote]So four more have come up since Rita?

[Romulus111VADT]

Everything you ever wanted to know about hurricanes, from NOAA.

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/tcfaqHED.html

So it was 1933 with 21....  ;D

It was the NOAA site http://www.nhc.noaa.gov that I got most all of the info I posted....forgot to mention that in the original post....ooops.....