???L - 2007 v. 2005

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???L - 2007 v. 2005

#1 Postby RBDnhm » Tue Sep 04, 2007 6:26 pm

Does the fact that we have had a 99L mean there have been 99 waves or somethings with a relatively low pressure worthy of giving a number to since the beginning of hurricane season?

How does that compare with 2005 at this date for the Atlantic?
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#2 Postby JonathanBelles » Tue Sep 04, 2007 6:28 pm

RBDnhm wrote:Does the fact that we have had a 99L mean there have been 99 waves or somethings with a relatively low pressure worthy of giving a number to since the beginning of hurricane season?

How does that compare with 2005 at this date for the Atlantic?


No, invests are given numbers 90-99L and it has now gone through that cycle twice or three times this season.
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#3 Postby RBDnhm » Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:16 pm

Thank you for the reply. Why start at 90? Since named storms start at "A", why not start with 1 for invests?
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#4 Postby JonathanBelles » Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:24 pm

RBDnhm wrote:Thank you for the reply. Why start at 90? Since named storms start at "A", why not start with 1 for invests?


I forget what the all the numbers mean, but each set of numbers has a different use. IE 80-89L are tests (i think) and there are other uses but I forgot what they all are.
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#5 Postby wxmann_91 » Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:48 pm

RBDnhm wrote:Thank you for the reply. Why start at 90? Since named storms start at "A", why not start with 1 for invests?

If we started with 1 for invests, there would be confusion between invests and named storms.
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#6 Postby Chacor » Wed Sep 05, 2007 1:26 am

INVESTs can't start at 1 because warned-on systems are given numbers too (hence "Tropical Depression One" would be 01L).

01-49 are reserved for warnings, 80-89 are test INVESTs and 90-99 are real INVESTs.
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#7 Postby Cryomaniac » Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:03 am

And 50-79 are used for weird sh-. :D Wasn't 50L used for that south atlantic hurricane?
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#8 Postby CrazyC83 » Wed Sep 05, 2007 10:48 am

1-49 are for actual tropical cyclones.

50-69 are reserved for special use. (i.e. Cyclone Catarina was 50L)

70-79 are for internal use for training purposes.

80-89 are for test invests.

90-99 are for operational invests.

Each one repeats itself after a cycle is completed (I doubt we will ever have to go from 49x to 01x in any basin though).
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