Which Hurricanes Have You Found Most Fascinating?

[Cyclenall]

I forgot about Cyclone Catarina in the South Atlantic Ocean back in 2004. Wow, that was cool but I never heard about it since I wasn't tracking storms closely back then. Did the NHC take care of that one and have it up on their website and everything?

[NC George]

Other than the ones that have directly affected me, Hurricane Hazel is the most fascinating to me primarily due to it's resiliance once it made landfall.

[AnnularCane]

Katrina (of course!), Ophelia, Kyle, Emily (1993 and 2005), Jeanne, Gordon (1994), Isabel, Andrew. Oh, and Epsilon and little Zeta.

I'm probably leaving some out.

[Cyclenall]

These Unisys maps are very wierd:



I'm sure this track happened .



I know this isn't a correct map but this can't be possible right? Yeah, a hurricane keeping it's strength as it crosses the world in a perfect stright line, right.

[NC George]

The first looks to be an error in the location of pt 2, and in the second map is an error in the software that is making the line. If you'll notice the last point in the second map crosses over the border of the map, the line should extend to the right border, then resume on the left border. If the map was centered on the Atlantic Ocean this wouldn't be a problem.

[CharleySurvivor]

Hurricane Charley for me as I was living there then, and now know what to expect should I have to live another.

[Ixolib]

Camille - Because at 12 years old (in 1969), it was the most awesome and fascinating force of nature I had ever experienced. Of course, that was made easier by the fact that I had no responsibilities for the damages. I was just a kid...

By the time Katrina came along and got finished kicking my butt, fascination had turned to dread - especially since the home that got whacked this time around was mine and not my parents'.

I'm still trying to figure out how to erase the last nine or 10 months from my memory!!

[MississippiHurricane]

For me the most interesting were Ivan and Katrina and Rita. Ivan only because of loop it made. And I chose Katrina for many reasons: 1. It was stronger than Camille and was headed basically on the same track. 2. Its the only hurricane that still was a hurricane when I felt the affects where I live at. 3.It caused a lot of panic and damage here that I have never seen before. 4.The Walmart here actually CLOSED and a curfew was issued. And finally Rita because of all the tornadoes here. I actually was working at Walmart pushing carts and remember seeing many funnel and wall clouds and the siren going off at least once every two hours and giving me a headache!!!

[El Nino]

Ivan ... A very long one, oscillating between cat4 and 5
Wilma, for its exploding power.

[wxmann_91]

Katrina, Rita, and Wilma. 'Nuff said.

[HurricaneBill]

My list in chronological order:

Hurricane Janet 1955 (Janet seems like she would have been a Storm2K "star". A storm that everyone would be posting about.)

Hurricane Donna 1960 (If Donna happened today, the media would have a field day with her. So would this board. The server would definitely overload due to Donna.)

Hurricane Inez 1966 (Nobody ever talks about Inez, even though she affected many countries and caused a lot of devastation. She also had an erratic path.)

Hurricane Eloise 1975 (A major hurricane had not hit the Florida panhandle in over 75 years. Then along came Eloise.)

Hurricane Joan 1988 (An extreme southern track and also strengthened while close to mountainous terrain.)

Hurricane Andrew 1992 (Watched this storm from beginning to end.)

Hurricane Georges 1998 (One of the most underrated storms.)

Hurricane Mitch 1998 (Such an incredible looking storm and such a horrific disaster. Mitch was a grim reminder that despite all the progress in technology and warnings in this day and age, catastrophies can still occur.)

Hurricane Floyd 1999 (Another underrated storm. Floyd was such an incredible storm.)

Hurricane Juan 2003 (Even though Canada gets a hurricane landfall every few years or so, it just didn't seem like the kind of country you'd associate with hurricanes. To me, Juan changed that.)

Hurricane Charley 2004 (Charley was a forecasting nightmare. A hurricane heading towards the coast suddenly starts to rapidly intensify. Another noteworthy thing people tend to forget about Charley: He was the first hurricane to make landfall on South Carolina since Hugo in 1989.)

Hurricane Jeanne 2004 ( I'll always think of Jeanne as "the disaster that wasn't supposed to be". I remember watching Jeanne and seeing her north of Haiti as the LLC moved away from the convection. I remember lots of people thinking "bye-bye Jeanne". But Jeanne survived, looked back, intensified into a Category 3 hurricane and hit the Bahamas and Florida.)

Hurricane Wilma 2005 (Watching the recon reports the night Wilma explosively intensified. Everyone on the board was pretty much freaking out. Also, after watching Dennis, Katrina, and Rita weaken in the Gulf before landfall, I was expecting Wilma to strengthen a little and then weaken before landfall on Florida. Instead, Wilma strengthened to Category 3 intensity. Although she weakened slightly prior to landfall, she was much stronger at landfall than I thought she'd be.)

[Jim Cantore]

Georges: This thing basically seemed to go out of its way to make landfall.

Floyd: A tale of two storms, the 155mph monster that caused such a huge panic, and the large stretched out cat 2 that unloaded on the mid atlantic with record rain.

Alberto: The loop, and nearly making it to iceland.

Allison: This wouldn't just go away.

Gabrielle: 983mb, The strongest tropical storm I've ever seen

Michelle: in 36 hours, it went from a 135mph beast, to about the most severely sheered storm I've ever seen.

Isidore & Lili: both hit Louisiana within a week of each other, Isidore made the unexpected turn into the Yucatan, Lili exploded and then underwent an Ethel-like collapse.

Claudette: Nasty little Hurricane.

Isabel: The most perfect storm on satelitte, a textbook shape.

Bonnie & Charley: landfalled on back to back days in the same state.

Frances: Can you move any freakin slower?

Ivan: Started quite far south, became a cat 5 three times, stayed at cat 4 from September 8-15th, put its strong East or Northeast eyewall on Grenada, Jamaca, the Caymans, and Cuba without making landfall, and of course the re-birth

Jeanne: This things track alone is a testiment of Floridas horrible luck in 2004.

Dennis: 150mph in July!

Emily: 160mph in July!!!!!!!

Katrina: Theres never been one like it.

Rita: Stronger then Katrina, and the largest evacuation in 6 years, not to mention a Katrina like surge and about 90 tornadoes.

Wilma: If on 8am on October 18th, somebody told me that in 24 hours she'd be at 185mph and 882mb I'd of had them commited.

Alpha-Zeta: just the fact that we needed them

[Ziplock]

How about Marilyn? As I recall, she was moving from west to east when she made landfall in the Caribbean, as a strong four or cat 5.

My earliest complex memory is of Hurricane Donna...of pressing my face against the glass and seeing all the trees bending wildly...I've been hooked ever since. I was two years old...

Gilbert sawing across Jamaica scared the you know what out of me.

Andrew changed my life forever.

And of course, last year's triumvirate of bad girls, Katrina, Rita, and Wilma.

Ivan drove me to drink...missed me, but put the fear into me in such a way as I have never known.

I love these works of nature, but I really pray we get something of a break this year.
Zip

[wzrgirl1]

Directly affected by Wilma, and Frances.........indirectly by Andrew..........but Andrew impacted me the most because afterwards I did I drive down to South Miami (about 50 miles or so from where I lived then) and couldn't believe what I saw

[HalloweenGale]

1988- Alberto, because it formed 74 miles from Nantucket
1991- Bob,Claudette,Grace, and unnamed
1992- Andrew
1993- Floyd, and Emily
1994- Gordon, and Sub tropical storm that hit around Christmas
1995- The whole season
1996- Josephine
1997- Danny
1998- Earl,Georges,and Mitch
1999- Floyd,Gert, and the remnants of Harvey
2000- Michael
2001- Allison,Michelle,Noel, and Olga
2002- Kyle
2003- Isabel and Juan
2004- Alex,Bonnie,Charley,Frances,Gaston,Hermine,Ivan, and Jeanne
2005- Whole season

[Jim Cantore]

How about Marilyn? As I recall, she was moving from west to east when she made landfall in the Caribbean, as a strong four or cat 5.

You mean Lenny

[mikey mike]

Katrina,Camille,Betsy,Elena,Frederick,and Georges.

[gulfcoastdave]

frederick , my first taste of a storm as a child
elana , the odd ways it moved
erin , being in the eye
opal , for scaring me...........going to bed it was a cat 1........woke to a cat 4
Ivan.....big bad ivan. has made me rethink about staying for storms
dennis.........

hurricane david was the first storm I ever tracked as a child and I have been hooked since

hugo , watching the storm make landfall and andrew

the first storms are all personal because of landfall near me..........

I think all storms are interesting and learn something from them all no matter how far away or how close.

[Recurve]

Don't think I posted yet,

1. "Unnamed" Labor Day 1935, 892/26.35

The most intense U.S. landfall on record, third (after Wilma and Gilbert) most-intense Atlantic landfall. A very small, deadly cyclone. The aftermath brought congressional hearings. The Overseas Railroad never returned.

[sunnyday]

Camille. The people who had the hurricane party right on the beach, and only one person survived, will stick in my mind forever.