Floydbuster

I always look back at hurricane seasons and wonder which ones were "memorable" to me personally. 2004 was amazing. Like watching "The Godfather". 2005 was unimaginable. Like watching "The Godfather Part II". 2006 sucked. 2007 gets glossed over, but I actually thought it was quite memorable. Dean and Felix were monsters in August and September. 2008 was amazing. On par with 2004. Bertha and Dolly in July, Gustav in August, Ike in September, Omar in October, Paloma in November. Doesn't get the credit it deserves because the landfalls were underwhelming. 2009 sucked. Then we had three years in a row (2010,2011,2012) which were EXTREMELY active...but I thought sucked. Hurricane Igor was retired in 2010 and I barely remember tracking it. Hurricane Irene in 2011 was exciting to track for about 2 hours. You already heard my 2012 thoughts on Sandy not to mention vertically challenged Isaac. Then after those three crazy but also crappy years...we had silent seasons. 2013 was the quietest since 1968. 2014 I don't even remember. 2015 had Joaquin but that was an oddity and later in the year. 2016 had Matthew but other than that, not too memorable. So, basically, with the exception of 2008, we had about six slow boring hurricane seasons, and then four busier but not that impressive seasons. JB referred to 2010 as the "gentle giant". 2017 felt VERY much like 2004. 2018 was made memorable by Florence and Michael. 2019, Dorian was pretty remarkable despite an otherwise mellow year. 2020 feels alot like 2004/2005/2008/2017. Many storms, many landfalls, Memorable.

Another thing that makes me hate Sandy is the way it affected Halloween. The storm hit and cancelled almost all Halloween plans, trick or treating for kids, haunted houses, parties, ect for most of the east coast and even out here in Ohio. Ever since then, if it so much as drizzles on Halloween, some cities "cancel" it. Sandy started that crap. 2012. CRAP year.

These guys put so much hard work and effort in, I don't wanna get specific or use names. I will say one chaser in particular has shocked me how he has become a world-wide phenomenon and gets awesome footage everytime. Another chaser is fantastic and puts in hard work, but we never see anything good. A dark webcam of a wave? It's not 1958. It's a risky business in more ways than one. What is funny is that I actually feel like Jim Leonard got the best footage back in the 1980s and 1990s. I don't understand why we have such better technology and so many powerful hurricane opportunities and yet the footage often seems...boring.

I hated that storm. Wasn't a real hurricane anymore at landfall, was a media hyped event, and ended up helping the climate changers convince college girls (between drinking and sex binges) that global warming is creating superstorms and (not to get political) helped Obama win re-election. Sandy sucked all around. I'm a hot August-tropical hurricane guy. Not a polar-low snowstorm "superstorm" sharknado guy. But that's my Sandy-vent.

Anyone remember when all the computer models didn't show a single Atlantic storm through the end of August?

Next is caffeine.

I actually quit smoking cigarettes cold turkey October 12th of last year. Almost 10 months now. Of course had I known how 2020 would go...I would've smoked an extra year.

Hurricane history in the making.

Higher background pressures due to the high?

I know. Everything was completely professional and fine until our moderator Liz Warren went all crazy on pronouns like a college girl.

Oh good lord. Now hurricanes are gender neutral. Hurricane Pat. There, feel better, Mappy?

I can't believe these kids on other forums. We have an organizing 75 mph hurricane and they're acting like it's not bad because it hasn't exploded into a Cat 5 yet. This is what happened when you're born into a post-Katrina world, believing every storm reaches 175 mph.

The EURO shows a hurricane barreling towards the Bahamas by Sept 3rd.

I was thinking the same thing. I was watching the long-range Tallahassee radar and I swear I saw the center racing towards the panhandle.

Anyone see the ICON makes Laura 225 mph at landfall?

Wow, the NHC is talking about how Marco may dissipate without ever making "landfall". Crazy.

The media is gonna be premature in their pants over this. Hopefully it's not as bad as it looks like it might be.

Marco's intensity will have downstream implications on Laura. A stronger Marco could help erode the ridge slightly in the short term so Laura might pull closer to the Keys.

I'd go ahead and name it. Can't be any worse than Hurricane Barry 2019.

Wouldn't a hurricane coming from this tear apart any system (TD-13) to it's east?

Serious question: Why do you seem so negative about the chances of 97L and (in particular) 98L? The National Hurricane Center is giving them both almost "certain" development chances, and technically they could both wind up becoming hurricanes. In fact, I think 98L is our most likely contender for the first major hurricane of the year. The wave over Africa is also moving off at just the right time. Last 10 days of August, MJO moving into favorable phase, rapidly decreasing wind shear conditions, increasing upper-level divergence and low level convergence. Significant moisture leaving Africa compared to the dustbowl we saw last month. So why so negative? I could understand if it were July and the SAL was everywhere, but these models are pretty damn tight for 5-7 days out, and that track in late August in a season like this screams major hurricane.

That CMC run is terrifying.