NationStates Jolt Archive

I don't know how many of you care or are interested, but although hurricane season officially ended November 30, guess what!

...SPECIAL FEATURE...

1006 MB GALE LOW IS NEAR 24N36W IN THE NE ATLC MOVING WNW 5-10
KT. WELL-PLACED BUOY OBSERVATIONS NEAR THE CENTER INDICATE A
MINIMUM PRESSURE OF 1006.7 MB AT 8Z WHEN THE SYSTEM PASSED...
FALLING RAPIDLY FROM 0Z AND 10.1 MB IN THE PAST 24 HOURS. FIRST
VISIBLE IMAGES SHOW DEEP CONVECTION ORGANIZING IN BANDS AROUND
THE CENTER AND IT IS NOT INCONCEIVABLE THAT THIS SYSTEM COULD
BECOME "ZETA" BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR. SHEAR IS FORECAST TO
REMAIN MODEST FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS THEN INCREASE THEREAFTER.
SSTS ARE MARGINAL.. ABOUT 23-24C BUT COOL 200 MB TEMPS COULD
HELP TO BALANCE THE BORDERLINE SSTS. A QUIKSCAT PASS AT 0752Z
INDICATED WINDS OF GALE FORCE.. PROBABLY TO NEAR 40 KT.
SCATTERED MODERATE CONVECTION IS WITHIN 100 NM IN THE NRN
SEMICIRCLE AND WIDELY SCATTERED MODERATE IS WITHIN 150 NM IN THE
SE QUADRANT.

As someone who follows hurricanes this is shocking.

And to think they said my butterfly-breeding program was pointless...

OOooo, butterfly breeding!! :D sign me up!

And to think they said my butterfly-breeding program was pointless...
You idiot! Don't you see what you have done?! Now al-Qaeda are going to launch their own butterfly breeding programme, and we're all fucked! :mad:

2005 has just been a very weird year to begin with. With three storms like Katrina, Rita, and Wilma which set top 4 records for intensity. Katrina was 4th lowest pressure in Atlantic basin recorded history at one point, then got bounced by Rita, then Wilma trumped them all.

Oh yeah, there's something about 26 named storms. A few of them probably never should have got named (Gert and Lee stick out in my head right now). But, it's still an incredible amount.

Epsilon lasted until Dec. 8th and that was a pretty freak storm. Just when you thought it would die, it didn't. Storms can and have existed in December, it's just rare and far between. However, a Zeta developing might just be a powerful storm in the ITCZ that gets mixed in with the liberal naming of tropical systems this year. After all, this is embedded with a trough of low pressure ... at least I saw that in the special report.

oh heck

A few of them probably never should have got named (Gert and Lee stick out in my head right now).



Why not?

If I can remember correctly, there were several short lived storms with minimal strength on them.

Lee was only at tropical storm strength for one advisory, poorly organized the whole time, then dipped into tropical depression status again. I personally believe Lee was at one point close to T.S. intensity but never made it, but got the name and T.S. status anyway.

Gert was one of those storms that developed in the Bay of Campeche close to the Mexican coastline. Didn't last too long before making landfall, and never got above 45 mph wind intensity. Some of these may not have been organized or powerful enough to get T.S. status and names either.

Lee was only at tropical storm strength for one advisory, poorly organized the whole time,
Poorly organised? That's not what the Pentagon told us. These hurricanes are even more dangerous than al-Qaeda.

Well it helps me pronounce Greek letters correctly...