2010 Atlantic hurricane season

[gatorback]

Ivan(the retard) was the most hurricane challenged storm ever. Didn't he make 2 or 3 u-turns in North East Georgia? I mean really, who turns around in GA? I'll check Ivan's track...but, I think Ivan made it back to to the gulf--from Athens!

[gatorback]

Hahah--worse then I thought!

[reednavy]

The Bermuda High kept the remnants of Ivan from moving into the Atlantic, and he had only one place to go, down the ridge.

[gatorback]

How often does that happen? Once every 500 years?

[reednavy]

How often does that happen? Once every 500 years?

I have no clue, and it is too late for me to try that research, lol.

[gatorback]

I think Ivan is my favorite storm. The reason is because he set the standard for unpredictable:

Records


Ivan as a Category 3 hurricane east of the Windwards on September 5, 2004.

Ivan set several new records for intensity at low latitudes. When Ivan first became a Category 3 hurricane on September 3 (1800 UTC), it was centered near 10.2 degrees north. This is the most southerly location on record for a major hurricane in the Atlantic basin.[1] Just six hours later, Ivan also became the most southerly Category 4 hurricane on record in the Atlantic basin when it reached that intensity while located at 10.6 degrees north.[6] Finally, at midnight (UTC) on September 9 while centered at 13.7 degrees north, Ivan became the most southerly Category 5 hurricane on record in the Atlantic basin.[6] Hurricane Felix nearly matched this record in 2007, becoming a Category 5 hurricane at 13.8 degrees north latitude.[8]

Ivan had the world record of 33 (32 consecutive) six-hour periods with an intensity at or above Category 4 strength. This record was broken two years later by Pacific Hurricane/Typhoon Ioke, which had 36 (33 consecutive) six-hour periods at Category 4 strength. This contributed to Ivan's total ACE of 70.38,[9] second only to the 1899 Hurricane San Ciriaco.[6]

Scientists from the Naval Research Laboratory at Stennis Space Center, Mississippi have used a computer model to predict that, at the height of the storm, the maximum wave height within Ivan's eyewall reached 131 feet (40 m).[10]

Ivan was one of the five rare Cape Verde storm to hit the U.S mainland after being named east of 35W. Other storms were Hurricane Donna in 1960, Hurricane Hugo in 1989, Hurricane Georges in 1998 and Hurricane Isabel in 2003.

On September 20, Ivan's remnant surface low completed an anticyclonic loop and moved across the Florida peninsula. As it continued west across the northern Gulf of Mexico, the system reorganized and again took on tropical characteristics.[1] On September 22 the National Weather Service, "after considerable and sometimes animated in-house discussion [regarding] the demise of Ivan,"[7] determined that the low was in fact a result of the remnants of Ivan and thus named it accordingly. On the evening of September 23, the revived Ivan made landfall near Cameron, Louisiana as a tropical depression. Ivan finally dissipated on September 24 as it moved overland into Texas.[1]

[gatorback]

How often does that happen? Once every 500 years?

I have no clue, and it is too late for me to try that research, lol.

You can pick up here in the morning. Lol

http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/1520-0469%281958%29015%3C0098%3ATFOCAA%3E2.0.CO%3B2

[keywest09]

Good Morning!!!! We had a 5min rain shower this morning. Clear sky's.

[fsujax]

Bonnie making landfall in Miami...nice radar images, center of circulation is very large, but a small storm in overall size and strength.

[Timkin]

I hope we at least get a little rain from Bonnie..    Is it just me, or is this one of the hottest Summers in recent years    Its probably me

[fsujax]

no, it's been hot here, we reached in the century mark for the first time in 10 years! on more than one occasion. not much rain either.

[Timkin]

Evidence of lack of rain , shows in my front yard.    We need rain... please !!!

[fsujax]

has anyone seen the latest satellite images of Bonnie...the most ragged looking TS i think i have ever seen.

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/flt/t1/flash-avn.html

[gatorback]

Bonnie dipped and is back to a tropical depression. I'm so depressed.

[Timkin]

I have mixed feelings.. With the mess in the Gulf at this point, this might be a blessing ,in disguise.

From a rain standpoint,