This is gonna be a fun hurricane season

[Romulus111VADT]

We're still dealing with Gustav and n we have Hanna gunning for the southeastern US. Now we have yet another storm heading into the picture. We have until November before hurricane season is "Officially over.

[ShaneG_old]

Can I interest anyone in some Gulf front property?

[AMDDDA]

At least we won the game (LSU).

[Romulus111VADT]

[ShaneG_old]

LMFAOROTF!!!!

That says it all!

[BigTruck]

I hear ya Romulus!!

[Apex]

Yep.

[tcco94]

At least we won the game (LSU).

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[a1]

Is it me or the storms are getting larger in numbers and size? :-?

[beaky]

Is it me or the storms are getting larger in numbers and size? :-?

Not necessarily, if you look at the record. Mind you, this list only goes up to 2005, but there are several years prior to WWII where there were four or more hurricanes with winds in excess of 80kts. 1893 was a particularly bad year, with 5 hurricanes, each packing winds of 75 kts or more... yet one of the worst ever in terms of sheer force, Andrew (145 kts recorded!), was the only official hurricane of 1992.

Another standout is the "Last Island" hurricane of 1856, which hit Louisiana with 130-kt winds.
There's a lot of wind data missing from this list, but if you look at the recorded pressures and compare them to others with recorded winds, you can get an idea of how they were categorized. It seems in general that if the pressure gets below 930 millibars... watch out!!  :o

It does stand to reason, though, that if atmosphere and water surface temps increase on the average, there are likely to be more cyclonic storms with more power.

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/ushurrlist.htm

[Mictheslik]

Is it me or the storms are getting larger in numbers and size? :-?

Not necessarily, if you look at the record. Mind you, this list only goes up to 2005, but there are several years prior to WWII where there were four or more hurricanes with winds in excess of 80kts. 1893 was a particularly bad year, with 5 hurricanes, each packing winds of 75 kts or more... yet one of the worst ever in terms of sheer force, Andrew (145 kts recorded!), was the only official hurricane of 1992.

Another standout is the "Last Island" hurricane of 1856, which hit Louisiana with 130-kt winds.
There's a lot of wind data missing from this list, but if you look at the recorded pressures and compare them to others with recorded winds, you can get an idea of how they were categorized. It seems in general that if the pressure gets below 930 millibars... watch out!!  :o

It does stand to reason, though, that if atmosphere and water surface temps increase on the average, there are likely to be more cyclonic storms with more power.

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/ushurrlist.htm

Also bear in mind that there are loads of hurricanes that become rather large but don't ever reach land before burning out. So the number and strength is the same, it's just luck as to which make landfall....

.mic

[BigTruck]

Hurricane Hugo anyone?  I know he didn't have the fastest winds, but he sure left his mark in his path!  

It's usually not the wind that destroys everything and it's mother, it's the rain that wreaks all the havoc.  

Yes the wind and tornadoes that come with the storm definately have their say in the matter, but over all lately it's been the heavy rain and flooding that's been destroying everything, if i remember right...

[Hagar]

They blame all this on "Global Warming" these days but severe weather & violent storms have been known throughout history. It's a reminder of how powerful Mother Nature can be & how puny us Human beings are in the scale of things despite all our brainpower & technology. I looked up the history of hurricanes & found this on the NOAA website. http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/HAW2/english/history.shtml
Note that their records go back only to 1851.

I found this interesting.

Galveston Hurricane 1900

This killer weather system was first detected over the tropical Atlantic on August 27. While the history of the track and intensity is not fully known, the system reached Cuba as a tropical storm on September 3 and moved into the southeastern Gulf of Mexico on the 5th. A general west-northwestward motion occurred over the Gulf accompanied by rapid intensification. By the time the storm reached the Texas coast south of Galveston late on September 8, it was a Category 4 hurricane. After landfall, the cyclone turned northward through the Great Plains. It became extratropical and turned east-northeastward on September 11, passing across the Great Lakes, New England, and southeastern Canada. It was last spotted over the north Atlantic on September 15.

This hurricane was the deadliest weather disaster in United States history. Storm tides of 8 to 15 ft inundated the whole of Galveston Island, as well as other portions of the nearby Texas coast. These tides were largely responsible for the 8,000 deaths (estimates range from 6,000 to 12,000) attributed to the storm. The damage to property was estimated at $30 million...

[Craig.]

add on TD10 now forming behind Ike and Hana. All on simmilar paths.
As a resident of Britain I am glad we miss the worst of these, but the storms which track up the east coast of the US tend to be bad for us as the drop a heck of a lot of rain on us a week or so later. So 3 of them mean a wet septemeber it would seem.

[beaky]

[quote]Hurricane Hugo anyone?