Floydbuster
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Yes, it's a Spanish female name. It's pronounced: See-Oh-Ma-Rah
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I can't believe we are gonna hit the Greek names. I don't like changing things set in stone, as our hurricane name lists have been for over 40 years. However, I think adding three additional letters to the Atlantic name lists would be a good way to prevent frequent exhaustion of the name list, as well as media sensationalism. This is already done in the Eastern Pacific. The Eastern Pacific uses the letters X, Y and Z. They have one female name for each letter, and one male name for each letter, and alternate them every two years rather than the way the main name list alternates every six years. I think adding those three letters to the Atlantic lists would be simple, and their infrequent usage and only needing a total of six different names for all six lists would make the situation much easier. So I'm proposing something like this: Any thoughts?
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I bought a Weather Channel dry erase hurricane tracking map in early August 2001. I remember I was tracking "Tropical Storm Chantal", which was expected to be a strong hurricane and never even became a hurricane, and my sister (who was two years younger than me) had her friend over and they were playing games or something and she laughed so hard she peed her pants and it turns out she was sitting on my dry erase map. Peed right on Tropical Storm Chantal. I remember I was pissed.
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Had Laura struck New Orleans or Houston...the media would've been camped out there. Cameron Parish? Crickets.
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I doubt anything could be as bad as the response to Katrina. But yeah, if Sally floods Dauphin Island, the media won't treat it the same as New Orleans. The media sucks big fat hairy nuts.
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I'm not at all. We don't need the media making Sally into another Katrina (even if Sally pales in comparison). I don't trust them or their agenda. I'd rather Sally stay weak or strike a less populated area.
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Yes. You'd have to come up with three male Q names for the Atlantic, three female Q names for the Atlantic. Then another three male Q names for the Eastern Pacific, then another three female Q names for the Pacific. I guess you could alternate like the Eastern Pacific does with Xina, Xavier, Zeke, Zelda, Yolanda and York every two years...but who knows.
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I saw her on Broadway when I was like 11 years old. "Grease". Sally Struthers played the Principal of Rydel High.
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Whenever I think of "Sally" I keep picturing Sally Field. She must be a bigger part of my psyche than I thought.
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This season feels like a dollar-store version of 2005. Instead of Cindy in Louisiana and then major Dennis and Emily, we got Cristobal in Louisiana, and then weaker Hurricanes Hanna and Isaias. Then instead of Katrina we got Laura. Now we have a system near Florida and the Gulf that developed in a similar area that Rita did in September. Also headed for Louisiana. Feels like a generic 2005.
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I always assume that a Miami Cat 4-type hurricane isn't very likely after September 20th. Hurricane King in 1950 was a Cat 4 in October, and Hurricane Matthew came close October 2016. Of course we had Hurricane Michael strike the Panhandle as a strengthening Cat 5 in October, but that was likely an anomaly of historic proportions. The Great Miami Hurricane and the Lake Okechobee Hurricane struck on September 18th and September 16th. There is still that window for a major SE Florida strike. Watch the wave leaving in a few days.
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I was thinking a NC landfall and then out to sea, but yeah. Looks interesting.
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Any idea why the waves are screwing around and not progressing westward?
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Where was Jim Edds during Hurricane Laura? Anyone heard from him?
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Does anyone have any realistic ideas as to why the models have been so awful on genesis? Showing an El Nino-type year when we're already damn near exhausting the name list by Sept 4th?
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It screws around offshore ala Juan 1985.
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I already look back on this hurricane season as memorable. There were hardly any lulls, even early storms like Cristobal and Gonzalo were exciting enough to track. Hurricane Hanna was a nasty landfall in Texas in July with a pressure in the 970s. Hurricane Isaias surprised us with the last minute intensification before striking North Carolina and causing impressive storm surge in Myrtle Beach. Then we had a devastating high-end Cat 4 landfall on the North Gulf Coast in August. To me, that's a memorable hurricane season, and I think we likely have a few more memorable storms to go. I just hope we don't exhaust the name list too quickly, who the hell wants to track a late-season Caribbean storm named "Eta".
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Shame there is no Belize radar.
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How is this not a tropical storm? Was recon out today? Did I miss it?
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How can the models be showing such a dead pattern?
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15 years ago at this very minute, tracking Katrina.
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What the hell is wrong with the genesis on these models?
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The "Double Trouble" Banter Thread
Floydbuster replied to Windspeed's topic in Tropical Headquarters
Yeah. I have a really powerful memory. Not a 100% photographic memory, but good enough to where I remember trivial things. I remember in 2001 I was 13 years old and ran to my father and said "Michelle's pressure plummeted all day" and he was like "Oh my God, who is Michelle?" and when I told him the hurricane he was like "You scared me, moron. I thought you were talking about a fu*king person!" I remember staying home "sick" from school in 2002 for Hurricane Lili, expected to be a high-end Cat 4 into the mid-Louisiana coast. I was in Jr. High and basically took a day off. The storm weakened so fast, I remember watching Jeff Morrow on TWC in New Iberia with a 90 mph gust. I slept the rest of the day until the afternoon. 2003 was decent. I remember watching Erika race across the Gulf and that was around the time of the 2003 Blackout. I recall our TV always being on The Weather Channel or the Food Network to watch Emeril during the Summer of 2003. I know I felt like crap during Hurricane Florence, had a bad cough and sore throat. I had a bad tooth pulled October 8th that year, two days before Cat 5 Michael, which coincidentally struck 72 hrs before my 30th birthday, and shares my name.
