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  1. Floydbuster
    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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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    Anyone remember when all the computer models didn't show a single Atlantic storm through the end of August?
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    Next is caffeine.
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    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.
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    Hurricane history in the making.
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    Higher background pressures due to the high?
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