2009 Hurricane Season Thread

[topless_mike]

Place your bets, folk.

How many?
How many hit as a Cat 4 or more?
Where will the biggest one hit?

[Jughead]

2009 Hurricane Names

Ana
Bill
Claudette
Danny
Erika
Fred
Grace
Henri
Ida
Joaquin
Kate
Larry
Mindy
Nicholas
Odette
Peter
Rose
Sam
Teresa
Victor
Wanda


Joaquin Scares the shit out of me...Larry not so bad:smile:

[boosterp]

10 hurricanes

2 reach Cat 4 but neither hits the US

4 hit the US, one of them hits New Orleans

[King Hippos Bandaid]

I say we reach Hurricane Odette


I sure hope not, I am cruising twice this summer

[Snoogans]

isnt this a little early. i thought this shit doesnt start til like June

[toolshed]

We are due for a biggie in Florida. I expect a few 2s or 3s every year, but pretty relaxed the last couple of years. So I am already stocking up for the monster hurricane Joaquin.

[ozzie]

2009 Hurricane Names

Ana
Bill
Claudette
Danny
Erika
Fred
Grace
Henri
Ida
Joaquin
Kate
Larry
Mindy
Nicholas
Odette
Peter
Rose
Sam
Teresa
Victor
Wanda


Joaquin Scares the shit out of me...Larry not so bad:smile:

The name Frederick was retired after it hit here in 1979. I'm suprised they're still using Fred.

Are they that hard pressed for F names?

I predict Peter 'n' Rose as consecutive hit kings somewhere along the Gulf Coast... but don't BET on it!

Ah ghee ghee gheeeeeeeeee

[topless_mike]

isnt this a little early. i thought this shit doesnt start til like June

one can never be too prepared....

surprised its not one of your tips (http://www.ronfez.net/forums/showthread.php?t=76162).

[Snoogans]

I live in Jersey, I dont give a fuck about Hurricanes

[cougarjake13]

8 total


3 cat 4's

[Freakshow]

isnt this a little early. i thought this shit doesnt start til like June

really early or really late--the hockey season started in October, the college football season doesn't start until august.

[topless_mike]

linky linkerton (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,513002,00.html)

Hurricane experts at Colorado State University have scaled back their prediction for the Atlantic and now say this will be an average season with 12 named storms, including six hurricanes. They say two of them could be major.

[Furtherman]

Forecasters predict the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season will be "near-normal," with four to seven hurricanes likely, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday, less than two weeks before the season begins. (http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/weather/05/21/2009.atlantic.hurricane/index.html)

[Kris10]

Why can't my name ever be a hurricane!

:glurps:

[jessicaduh]

fuck a hurricane. go pens!

[ozzie]

Forecasters predict the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season will be "near-normal," with four to seven hurricanes likely, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday, less than two weeks before the season begins. (http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/weather/05/21/2009.atlantic.hurricane/index.html)

Ha! It's still May, and there's a depression in the Gulf right now!

Not a good sign for things to come.

We started getting rain bands coming onshore from the east today.

The Hurricane Hunter will be sent out to check it out soon.

Not sure if it will develop into anything with any high winds or anything close to a storm category, but this thing sure is acting "Tropical".

SPECIAL TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
205 PM EDT FRI MAY 22 2009

FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC...CARIBBEAN SEA AND THE GULF OF MEXICO...

SATELLITE IMAGES INDICATE THAT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ASSOCIATED
WITH A BROAD AREA OF LOW PRESSURE OVER THE NORTH-CENTRAL GULF OF
MEXICO HAVE INCREASED TODAY. SOME SLOW DEVELOPMENT OF THIS SYSTEM
IS POSSIBLE AS IT MOVES SLOWLY NORTHWARD...AND AN AIR FORCE RESERVE
HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT WILL INVESTIGATE THE LOW TOMORROW...IF
NECESSARY. THERE IS A LOW CHANCE...LESS THAN 30 PERCENT...OF
TROPICAL CYCLONE DEVELOPMENT IN THIS AREA BEFORE THE SYSTEM REACHES
THE COAST ON SATURDAY. REGARDLESS OF DEVELOPMENT...HEAVY RAINS AND
OCCASIONALLY GUSTY WINDS ARE EXPECTED ALONG PORTIONS OF THE
NORTHERN GULF COAST TODAY AND SATURDAY.

$$
FORECASTER KIMBERLAIN/FRANKLIN

[MC Pee Pants]

This is silly.

[beachbum]

I don't care as long as they avoid Tampa Bay.

[Furtherman]

HERE WE GO!!!!

Season's first tropical depression forms off Atlantic coast (http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/weather/05/28/tropical.depression.one/index.html)

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- The first tropical depression of the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season formed off the coast of the eastern United States, forecasters said Thursday, but was not expected to threaten land.

Tropical Depression One was about 310 miles (500 kilometers) south of Providence, Rhode Island, and about 635 miles (1,020 kilometers) southwest of Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Thursday morning, according to the National Hurricane Center.


AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH RUUUUNNNN!!!!!!!!!

[hanso]

Go Gators!

[Farmer Dave]

One really big one will hit Nova Scotia. What do I know, I'm watching out for tornadoes all the time.

[Furtherman]

Well the season has decided to come around. The first named one is now over the Atlantic.

Hello Bill!

[ozzie]

Ana is named, and still out there too. Looks like she's headed into the gulf, but not projected to amount to much.

Claudette was the last of the three to form, and she's already come and gone. Came ashore just east of here overnight, but no one to the west of it felt a thing.

Hoping that Bill stays in the Atlantic.

[Reynolds]

This is the final hurricane season thread, sorry. Bill Gates is ending hurricanes.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/08/28/hurricanes.gates.gray/index.html

[Knowledged_one]

gonna be tough to blame george bush for all of these hurricanes now

[razorboy]

gonna be tough to blame george bush for all of these hurricanes now

I still blame him for the Rangers.

[ozzie]

Looks like IDA is headed this way, and will make landfall sometime overnight, or early tomorrow morning as a Tropical Storm.

[TheGameHHH]

i thought hurricane season was over

[ozzie]

i thought hurricane season was over

Typically the "season" ends November 1st, but it's not that uncommon to still have a few pop up in November.

The water temp is working in our favor, and helping to weaken the system. It was up to a Cat 2 just 24 hours ago, but max winds are now below hurricane strength, and with how fast it's moving, the wind shear and colder water, not likely that she'll have a chance to strengthen before she makes landfall.

Shouldn't cause much widespread damage, but those of us just east of the eyewall will probably have a long night.

[razorboy]

I tried to exploit Ida and get some good waves for surfing tonight. Didn't work out all too well.