General Chat / Worst Hurricane Season Ever

These Hurricane's have really been bitches, Katrina, Rita, and now Wilma and I think there was another cat 5?

Also this season:

- Fisrt time we ever ran out of names
- A Hurricane (Vince) formed off Spain and then hit it as a T.D. Both were firsts in recored history
- Most named storms, cat 5's, ect... all the records I think
- Made it to the Greek alphabet with about 40 days left in the season
- Wilma, Rita and Katrina all rank in the top 10 for all-time lowest recored Atlantic storm pressures
- Wilma sets all-time Altantic basin record with a pressure reading of 882 MB (All time record for any tropical cyclone in the world is 870 MB, set by Typhoon Tip in 1979)
- And mid last year the first Hurricane/Cyclone ever was recored off the coast off Brazil and made landfall near Rio with Hurricane force winds. A Hurricane had never formed in that area before

I think its got to be global warming that is makeing things go insane like this, could be an El Nino but I have heard nothing about that happning.

Once Wilma is gone and I have power i'll give you guys an update of what happend here.

El Nino is in the PACIFIC. Think before you post, you "joronilish!"

It COULD be global warming... but it could also be the natural progression of hurricanes, since we go through cycles of lotsa cyclones and few cyclones every couple of decades.

Although I'm relatively pro-environmentalist, I don't think we should jump the gun on everything. At the same time, do try to do your part to help the environment.

I'm not sure if we're causing global warming or if it's a natural part of Earth's cycle (that happens once every tens of millennia), but I do think we're certainly exacerbating it.

Global warming is a misnomer, though. The Earth's climate as a whole is changing. Example: Mount Washington just experienced its warmest September on record, directly followed by its snowiest October on record (mostly thanks to an epic dumping last weekend). Something like 5 of Boston's 10 snowiest winters ever have occurred in the last decade. And after me being snowed in for a few days last winter, you'll have a hard time convincing me that the planet is getting warmer.

El Nino is in the PACIFIC. Think before you post, you "joronilish!"

El Nino has affected Atlantic Hurricane seasons in the past, you "arkatecd"

El Nino has affected Atlantic Hurricane seasons in the past, you "arkatecd"

i don't even know what you guys are saying.

El Nino has affected Atlantic Hurricane seasons in the past, you "arkatecd"

That's La Nina.

I think the reason were seeing more is the normal cycle of hurricanes, combined with "global warming". We're at the peak of the cycle, and climate change is aggravating it significantly. I'm not a scientist, but that's my theory, based upon personal observations, and the views of other scientists.

One, this is not the most ever. It is the most ever recorded. Most ever implies in the entire history of the Atlantic. Hurricans have only been tracked for about 100 years. For all we know this is nothing compared to what may have happened 200 years ago.

Two, we can't really even say these are the worst storms (catagory wise) since the technology used has not been the same. Hurricane Andrew was considered a Cat 4 when it made land fall in 1992. In 2002, after 10 years of reviewing the satellite data, it was determined that Hurricane Andrew was a Cat 5 when it made landfall. Satellite tracking of storms is still a relatively new thing. If the early 1990s top tech really wasn't right then what about the decades before?

Now most importantly, we must remember that this is all George W. Bush's fault. His environmental policies are so bad they've caused the ice caps on Mars to melt!

One, this is not the most ever. It is the most ever recorded. Most ever implies in the entire history of the Atlantic. Hurricans have only been tracked for about 100 years. For all we know this is nothing compared to what may have happened 200 years ago.

Two, we can't really even say these are the worst storms (catagory wise) since the technology used has not been the same. Hurricane Andrew was considered a Cat 4 when it made land fall in 1992. In 2002, after 10 years of reviewing the satellite data, it was determined that Hurricane Andrew was a Cat 5 when it made landfall. Satellite tracking of storms is still a relatively new thing. If the early 1990s top tech really wasn't right then what about the decades before?

Now most importantly, we must remember that this is all George W. Bush's fault. His environmental policies are so bad they've caused the ice caps on Mars to melt! 

I'm sorry, did you say something?

Now most importantly, we must remember that this is all George W. Bush's fault. His environmental policies are so bad they've caused the ice caps on Mars to melt! kiss.gif

Quoted for out of context proof for future "arguments."

My theory basically matches cg?'s theory. Big things like this are rarely ever caused by one single thing.

obv the increased methan explusion from the organic form know as corky has be accredited with the increase in global temperature, thus making the oceans warmer ergo creating more hurricanes!

watch, in fifty years we'll enter another ice age, stumping all of the scientists' hidden agendas.

Don't you mean the Best Hurricane season. afterall it is called Hurricane, so the Hurricane's re wooping it up off the coast of Africa. high fiviing each other "Go Omega!"

I say worst coz there aint nothing to good about them really...

ATM (5 AM) im in the outer Tropical Storm part, its much more wind then rain. Nice to see the power is still working... for now...

You get hurricanes, and we're just starting to realise it's not summer anymore!

Don't you mean the Best Hurricane season.

Interesting perspective. I guess thats true for me in the sense of job security as an insurance adjuster, but its also bad since there won't be any profit-sharing this year....

I think as long as my house doesn't catch on fire this year I'm good to go....

Interesting perspective.  I guess thats true for me in the sense of job security as an insurance adjuster, but its also bad since there won't be any profit-sharing this year....

The only people who hope for shitty weather are skiers and surfers.
And insurance adjusters, as it would be.

Watch out all those in the NE. You guys will be in for a wallop.
On Tuesday a strong low coming from the west, Wilma, and whats left of Alpha are forcasted to come together to produce this storm.

Inland: Heavy snow and high winds.
Inland/near coast: Heavy rain and high winds. Not good for the areas already devastated by flooding and excess rain.
Coast: Gales that will produce near, possibally, hurricane force winds and rain.

Watch out all those in the NE. You guys will be in for a wallop.
On Tuesday a strong low coming from the west, Wilma, and whats left of Alpha are forcasted to come together to produce this storm.

Inland: Heavy snow and high winds.
Inland/near coast: Heavy rain and high winds. Not good for the areas already devastated by flooding and excess rain.
Coast: Gales that will produce near hurricane force winds and rain.

Devastated by flooding. Hahaha.
I don't know if you get your info from the Weather Channel, or some shit like that, but nowhere here is really devastated by flooding. A few random towns got walloped (Keene NH, this means you) but there wasn't widespread damage. That dam didn't break, Taunton wasn't washed away (though a good city-destroying flood would be good for that shithole), no one's dead. Jesus. I hate the fucking media. One city in Louisiana gets some water in it, and now the media claims the Apocalypse every time someone gets rain.

You know what's gonna happen with this so-called Superstorm? It's gonna rain tonight and tomorrow, a few rivers might overflow their banks, three or four houses will get wrecked, Taunton will not be destroyed(sadly), my cross-country meet on Wednesday will be postponed, and northern New England will get a shitload of snow meaning early season openings and stellar conditions for November at most northern ski areas. I fail to see the bad in any of this, except the fact that Taunton will be spared.