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"Favorite" hurricane season?

#1 Postby zal0phus » Sun Sep 19, 2021 10:42 am

"Favorite" may be a misnomer due to the undeniable destruction that hurricane seasons cause. That said, what hurricane season did you find the most interesting or personally memorable?
For me it would have to be 2018. It was the year I first started seriously tracking hurricanes after becoming interested with Hurricane Irma the prior year, and as horrid as Florence and Michael were to the communities they impacted they were both absolutely gripping to track. Also, my interest in hurricanes at the time helped inspire a story concept I've been working on since.
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Re: "Favorite" hurricane season?

#2 Postby Ubuntwo » Sun Sep 19, 2021 10:53 am

'Favorite' might not be the right word for it, but 2007. Many interesting, weird, and scary storms to track. The first year I can remember getting invested in and following through.
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Re: "Favorite" hurricane season?

#3 Postby kevin » Sun Sep 19, 2021 10:53 am

While I think 'favorite' is a terrible term for the year I'm about to name, I do think 2017 was the most interesting year since I started tracking hurricanes. I guess I started tracking around 2015 so I don't have a lot of years to pick from. 2020 was of course insane due to the extreme NS count and the unparalleled activity in October/November. But personally 2017 really was the year that I went from casual tracking to being obssessed with tropical systems. Once again, favorite is not the word I would use, but seeing such a long tracking MDR monster such as Irma truly made me realize how powerful nature can be.
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Re: "Favorite" hurricane season?

#4 Postby aspen » Sun Sep 19, 2021 11:04 am

If this is expanded to EPac seasons, then my favorite would be 2018, no competition. By far the best season in either the East Pacific or Atlantic for OTS or low impact, long-tracking Cat 4+ storms — Hector, Lane, Norman, Olivia, Rosa, Sergio, and Walaka, as well as the shorter lived Aletta, Bud, and Willa.

2018 globally was just an insane TC season. All Northern Hemisphere basins saw above-average activity, and had a total of nearly a dozen Cat 5s. The WPac was pumping out so many that the basin almost couldn’t handle it; Trami would end up causing a cold wake that rapidly weakened Kong-Rey, and I’m surprised Yutu didn’t fall into a cold wake as well.
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#5 Postby Category5Kaiju » Sun Sep 19, 2021 11:55 am

I was only 4 when it happened and was not interested in weather then, but 2005. That season must have been extremely shocking and thrilling to track; I could only imagine the younger trackers who are on this forum (myself included) tracking that season as much as we are tracking this season and the more recent ones. With the being said, I think many others could agree on the least favorite hurricane season to track of all time: 2013.
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Re: "Favorite" hurricane season?

#6 Postby Astromanía » Sun Sep 19, 2021 1:29 pm

2018 East Pacific season of course, the first time I tracked an hurricane season and damn how it was
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Re: "Favorite" hurricane season?

#7 Postby supercane4867 » Sun Sep 19, 2021 2:18 pm

2015 pacific hurricane season was truly legendary

- A record high of 16 hurricanes, and remarkably 11 of them became majors (also a record high)
- 3 simultaneous CAT4s active at the same time (Kilo, Ignacio, Jimena), unparalleled in any basin
- last major hurricane (Sandra) reached such intensity on November 26th, surpassing the previous record set by Kenneth 2011 by 4 days
- Hurricane Patricia, a tale of her own

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Re: "Favorite" hurricane season?

#8 Postby Stormybajan » Sun Sep 19, 2021 2:30 pm

2010 - Takes the #1 spot for me because thats when I first started following Hurricanes as a child. I remember going on Stormpulse everyday after school and looking at storm after storm and hurricane after hurricane, (I think the spinning icon of each storm/Hurricane had me hypnotized :lol: ). The ones I remember the most from 2010 are,Earl,Igor, and obviously of course Hurricane Tomas. Stormpulse was awesome man (when it was free)

2017- Welp, for obvious reasons. Iconic season with monstrous hurricane after monstrous hurricane. Definitely for me top 2 most memorable hurricane seasons we've ever had, with Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Irma, Hurricane Maria ( The 4th year anniversary of the catastrophic category 5 landfall on Dominica was yesterday September 18th), Hurricane Jose and even Hurricane Ophelia being the most easterly major hurricane on record. Even thinking back, we will likely never see a month like 2017's September again where the weakest Hurricane was 100 mph Hurricane Katia, a month that produced mindboggling 175 ACE in the month of September!!! , 2017 even produced 14.4 ACE in a single day when Irma, Jose and Katia were all roaming the Atlantic!! Even the 10 hurricanes in a row record is extreme. I'm 2017 was the year where many, many people started their journey of following weather and the climate with serious interest.
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Re: "Favorite" hurricane season?

#9 Postby Hammy » Sun Sep 19, 2021 3:10 pm

Probably 1995/96 as they were the first years I actually tracked (which also coincided with the start of the active period), and 2004 for being the first time I both went through a hurricane, and the first time I chased one, even if it was just in town.
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Re: "Favorite" hurricane season?

#10 Postby Yellow Evan » Fri Sep 24, 2021 2:00 am

Of the ones I've tracked...

Atlatnic: 2017, 2005, and 2020 in that order. 2017's September was pure magical with 3 ultra long trackers and a GOM and subtropics hurricane tops the 4 WCarb/GOM Category 5's for me. 2020 had a lot of slop but 5 WCarb hurrcanes in October-November including two 130 knot+ systems puts it right up there.

East Pacific: 2018, 2015, 2018 EPAC is the only non-WPAC 300 ACE season and had 4 storms over 30 ACE, and a fifth come quite close while 2015 had a record 11 majors taking a variety of tracks, Patricia, and 3 Cat 4 triplets in late August.

West Pacific: 2015, 2018, though tbf almost every season in this basin is great.

Also shout out to 2018/19 SWIO for spinning up something like 9 majors.
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Re: "Favorite" hurricane season?

#11 Postby Nuno » Fri Sep 24, 2021 8:03 am

2005. Long live the king of seasons.
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Re: "Favorite" hurricane season?

#12 Postby HurricaneEnzo » Fri Sep 24, 2021 8:20 am

Growing up in Eastern NC I became fascinated with Hurricanes at a young age. The first storm I can really remember being invested in tracking was Bob in 1991, I was 7 years old. Been a passion of mine ever since.

With that being said the most interesting season to me tracking wise has to be 2005. It was just absolutely absurd. Not only was the storm count high but so many powerful systems.
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Re: "Favorite" hurricane season?

#13 Postby ElectricStorm » Fri Sep 24, 2021 8:25 am

I wasn't old enough to track 2005 but out of the seasons I have tracked, 2017 Atlantic, 2015 EPAC and 2018 worldwide were all insane.
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Re: "Favorite" hurricane season?

#14 Postby Nuno » Fri Sep 24, 2021 8:40 am

Weather Dude wrote:I wasn't old enough to track 2005 but out of the seasons I have tracked, 2017 Atlantic, 2015 EPAC and 2018 worldwide were all insane.


There really was nothing like 2005. It may have less quantity than 2020 but the storms were unique in many ways, track and intensity-wise.
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