What seasons do you find the most interesting?

[RL3AO]

I honestly can't even remember what happened in 2006 and 2007. I remember storm seasons in the 1980s better than those two. Intensely forgettable.

2007 wasn't too bad was it?

How about two category-5's making landfall (one being a top 10 lowest pressure in the Atlantic basin ever in Dean), unheard off and also the fastest forming system close to land in Humberto, also I velieve the quickest disturbance to hurricane ever in Lorenzo.

But since it didn't happen in the US it doesn't matter.

[bob rulz]

2005 has definitely got to be the most interesting that I know of. The only thing it lacked was a good Cape Verde season; that's where 2004 takes over. Probably the most amazing 2 years in Atlantic history. Since I started keeping track in 2004, I remember 2004 and 2005 the strongest, but 2004 also had the advantage of me beginning to get to learn about tropical cyclones, so many of my vivid memories come from that; 2005 was pretty much the "who omg" season. I also find 2003 pretty interesting...compared to other seasons it was relatively unusual. I don't know much about the seasons before 1995.

[fasterdisaster]

2007 was a great season for tropics. 15 named storms, 2 cat 5s, 3 retired names. Maybe not a 2004-2005 but it was definitely up to par with the 1995-2003 period.

[wxmann_91]

2007 was the most interesting for me. I was coherent enough to understand what I was doing and which sites to use and what not, compared to 2005 when I was still pretty naive. Felix was sorta a letdown though; if it didn't slam into Nicaragua it would've had many days of Cat 4/5 in store (not saying I wanted it to hit land at that intensity, but of course as a weather enthusiast I'm a big fan of seeing beautiful hurricanes on satellite).

[SapphireSea]

I'm pretty young, I was about to be 7 when I rode out Andrew, and tracked every season since then, and I would have to say that, the most interesting season was 1995. I know there were a lot of recurves that year, but we had some amazing moments, 4 TDs at the same time, two storms demonstrating Fujiwara, Opal, Luis, and the 4th highest ACE in the Atlantic, cant ask for more.

Also some of these recurvers did actually hit some landmasses before going out to sea, Luis and Marilyn I think are two examples.

[Category 5]

i am really fascinated with the 1999 season... 5 glorious category 4 hurricanes...

1999 was interesting indeed. But I find nothing glorious about Floyd.

[Jason_B]

i am really fascinated with the 1999 season... 5 glorious category 4 hurricanes...

1999 was interesting indeed. But I find nothing glorious about Floyd.

Huh? Floyd was a amazing looking hurricane.



2005 will probably be the most interesting season for me forever, it was almost like a movie it was so surreal. 95 was also pretty memorable for me, and like some others have said 2007 was interesting as well (mainly because of Dean and Felix).

[Steve]

>>2004 and 2005, easily. 1985 and 1998 were pretty interesting too.

Those were all wild seasons. The ones I find most interesting are the ones that affected me.

I remember '85 - there were some scares and close calls; a couple of hurricane parties too.

'88 was the same way (Florence).

1992, though it wasn't much of a season, had Andrew. That was one of the first major storms of the mass media era. My then-wife was pregnant, and we all saw what happened in Homestead a couple of days before.

1995 was a busy year with a couple of close calls.

1998 was pretty nuts in general with the strong La Nina reaction to 1997.

2002 was a crazy year. We got some solid effects from Isidore, Lili and several minor tropical systems.

2005 though, is my most memorable year. The entire basin was a cauldron. That's a year that may well never be duplicated in any of our lifetimes. 6 letters into the Greek alphabet? That's a hyper-season. I think '33 is the only season that almost gives it a run for the money.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:2005 ... on_map.png

JMO

Steve

[Category 5]

i am really fascinated with the 1999 season... 5 glorious category 4 hurricanes...

1999 was interesting indeed. But I find nothing glorious about Floyd.

Huh? Floyd was a amazing looking hurricane.

Oh there's no arguing that, but it wasn't glorious to be under those clouds. Alot of flooding records/near records were set here.

[Aslkahuna]

The 1974 WPAC season was a wild one in the Philippines-particularly Luzon. In October and November we had Typhoon's Bess, Carmen, Della, Elaine, Tropical Storm Faye, TY Gloria and TY Irma all hit the island with all except Della and Faye landfalling within 60 miles of Baler Bay. All of the storms except Della brought TS Force gusts while Irma was a full typhoon experience at Clark AB. We evacuated the Base for Elaine and Irma. Elaine hit us on October 28th and Faye late on October 31st.

Steve

[Ad Novoxium]

Atl:
1866, 1887, 1893, 1914, 1950, 1955, 1960, 1961, 1964, 1966, 1969, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998-2005, and 2007.

EPac:
1959, 1968, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1985, 1992, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2005, and 2006.

[Cyclenall]

The most interesting were 2007, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 1999, 1998, 1995, 1992, and the rest I don't feel like listing.

The least interesting were 2006 (ugh), 2001 (what happened in this season again?), 1997 (Other basins saved the tropical weather watcher's sanity), 1994, 1993, ... 1962 (oh my, how awful of a season this must have been to track) and others.

The 1962 Atlantic hurricane season is almost never talked about and for good reason. Not one tropical cyclone formed or entered into the Gulf of Mexico or Caribbean!! That is impressive but boring. All the storms recurved and there was a weak major hurricane. It was a very inactive with just 5 named storms.

[Matt-hurricanewatcher]

Here is how I would rate the last 10 seasons...

2005-NO #4@$!, 28 named storms with 4 cat5s with 12+ hurricanes. I don't care if I live to a 100 years old I won't see that again. I will go down to the beach in the beath of one of the cat5s in race up and down the coast at 150 mph if it happens again. I promise!

2004, How very few years have seen as many powerful landfalling hurricanes as this seasons. Very few, Jeanne 3k+ deaths and a cat3 into florida only weeks after Frances. Charley the most powerful hurricane season Donna to hit western Florida, and for a short time the second most costly. Ivan, only sh#$ most low forming cat5 in history with 71 ace.

1999, Floyd, Dennis, east coast landfallers. I can remember these storms as I was watching the weather channel. Bret a cat4 hurricane with a landfall as a cat3. Lanny a eastward moving cat4 late season system in the caribbean.

1998. Mitch, Georges enough said.

2003. Isabel 165 mph winds in one of the few cat5s to form over the centeral Atlatnic. Very very few do this as far north as this did. Fabian into Bermuda.

2007, Humberto being super fast to depression to hurricane. Flix power house, Dean power house both in the caribbean. Both landfalling cat5s!

2001, Iris, Michele, A few others!

2000 Keith into Yucatan, Isacc long tracker, Alberto one of the longest lived storms.

2002. Lili cat4 in the gulf, Isidore into northern Yucatan. Kyle 88 advisorys!

2008. Bertha 70 advisorys super early former with records of being the farthest east as tropical storm, hurricane, major hurricane. Hurricane Dolly costest hurricane for texas since Alica 1983. Arthur first May tropical storm in a long time.

2006, sucked! Gordon, Helen both fish spinner in did nothing.

[Air Force Met]

How about two category-5's making landfall (one being a top 10 lowest pressure in the Atlantic basin ever in Dean), unheard off and also the fastest forming system close to land in Humberto, also I velieve the quickest disturbance to hurricane ever in Lorenzo.

Lorenzo was a TD for almost 2 days before it became a TS. It then quickly became a hurricane.

Humberto was a disturbance that morning (well...really was already a TD...NHC just waited on the plane)...became a TD at 10am CDT...then a TS at 1PM...and a hurricane at around midnight. 14 hours from nothing to hurricane.

[Cyclone1]

1979...
On June 11th, Tropical Depression 2 formed.

On July 28, Tropical Depression 10 formed.

On November 8, Tropical Depression 26 formed.

There were 27 over all, only 8 of them became tropical storms, and 1 became a subtropical storm.

That's quite an accomplishment.

[Cyclenall]

1979...
On June 11th, Tropical Depression 2 formed.

On July 28, Tropical Depression 10 formed.

On November 8, Tropical Depression 26 formed.

There were 27 over all, only 8 of them became tropical storms, and 1 became a subtropical storm.

That's quite an accomplishment.

A hurricane season having a extra 19 tropical depressions seems unrealistic and awkward. It doesn't make sense because why would this season have so many weak tropical cyclones like that? I haven't seen them all documented. In theory, this could be thought as one of the most active Atlantic seasons of all time if you count TD's.

[Ptarmigan]

Let see what season is most interesting. All are different. Here are the season that interests me the most.
1780-October of 1780 had three storms that claimed over thousands of lives including the Great 1780 Hurricane that claimed 22,000 to 30,000 lives.
1886-Four hurricanes affected Texas, including three making landfall. Florida was also hit by three hurricanes that year. Also, the year of the Indianola Hurricane.
1893-High ACE with just 12 storms. I think 1893 had more storms.
1900-Great Galveston Hurricane
1914-One storm was recorded. Sounds too dubious to me.
1933-21 storms. Possibly more active than 2005.
1977-Almost all the basins from Atlantic, East Pacific, West Pacific, and Southern Hemisphere had below average activity for unknown reasons. I am still trying to find out why it was the case. All I know, we just came off of a weak El Nino, but a rather strong Southern Oscilliation.
1979-Super Typhoon Tip and TS Claudette.
1983-Atlantic and West Pacific was inactive, while East Pacific was hyperactive. We came off of a strong El Nino. Also, Hurricane Alicia made landfall.
1988-Hurricane Gilbert. Got me into weather.
1989-First hurricane season I tracked.
1992-Hurricane Andrew.
1997-Quiet in the Atlantic, while Pacific was hyperactive.
1998-Got hit by Charley and Francis. Also, Georges and Mitch were bad.
1999-Texas first major hurricane since Alicia. Also, very active.
2000-Late starter and very active.
2004-Very active in a short time span and late starter.
2005-No explanation needed.
2007-Two Category 5 hurricanes forming within weeks apart and making landfall as Category 5.

[MiamiensisWx]

Frankly, I'm stunned that 1992 is not mentioned on a frequent basis. I vividly recall that year as a south FL resident not only because of Andrew, but also because of 1992's incredible impact on the United States. Consider the fact that the year featured a Category 5 strike (Andrew) on the Bahamas, south Florida, and Louisiana (Cat 3); the strongest Hawaiian landfall on record (Iniki), which struck Kauai'i with winds of Categort 4 strength and devastated many residences from one end to the north side; and a Category 4 (SSHS) typhoon named Omar that struck the United States territory of Guam and brought impressive winds to the island, as documented by Jim Leonard's video. Has anyone seen the Kauai'i video taken during Iniki as well? It is quite remarkable, and it is easily one of the most impressive videos during a tropical cyclone landfall.

Other extremely notable Atlantic seasons are 1926 and 1928. These years were quite deadly for the Caribbean and CONUS. In 1926, the sixth storm (the infamous south FL Miami/Fort Lauderdale hurricane) co-existed with three additional tropical cyclones, including a weakening TS off the Florida Keys; a >975 mb hurricane recurving west of Bermuda; and another hurricane further east over the subtropical North Atlantic. Some of the highest winds recorded at the time were measured by a reliable (!) anemometer on the roof of the coastal Allison Hospital in Miami Beach during the 1926 Miami hurricane on September 18. The anemometer recorded sustained winds in excess of 120 mph for several consecutive minutes during the eastern eyewall before it was blown off the roof. All of the three CONUS landfalls struck Florida or the Gulf Coast; two were major hurricanes (Cat 3 in Louisiana/Cat 4 in south Florida). The first TC of the season killed +50 in Puerto Rico from flooding, became a major (Cat 3) hurricane over the Bahamas, and made landfall on Cape Canaveral (Cat 2) and Merritt Island in late July. 1928 featured the San Felipe TC, which speaks for itself.

1998 featured the extremely intense, deadly Mitch (late October Cat 5 at 155 kt/905 mb) and Georges. This year is often overlooked, but it yielded Bonnie (Cat 2 in North Carolina) and Earl (Cat 1 in the Florida Panhandle), the latter of which caused locally extensive coastal flooding via storm surge. 1998 was very deadly in the Caribbean and Central America, claiming far too many lives. Georges also struck the Monroe County Keys and Mississippi during the latter half of its life span as well.

1999 was very impressive with a high ACE and five Category 4 hurricanes. Floyd approached Category 5 intensity (135 kt/921 mb) east of the Bahamas; caused significant flooding in the CONUS and extensive to severe damage on the Abaco Islands; and provided very large waves and a memorable close call for the east coast of Florida. I lived through the close brush; I remember it, and its sole lasting impact was further interest in meteorology.

2004 and 2005 do not need any description.

Other impressive seasons:

1924 (Atlantic)
1932 (Atlantic)
1933 (Atlantic; does not need any description)
1935 (Atlantic)
1938 (Atlantic)
1944 (Atlantic)
1961 (Atlantic)
1969 (Atlantic)
1970 (very melancholy North Indian season for Bangladesh)
1974 (Severe Tropical Cyclone Tracy during South Indian season)
1988 (Atlantic)
1989 (Atlantic)
1995 (Atlantic and WPAC)
1997 (WPAC)
2001 (Atlantic)

[MiamiensisWx]

Frankly, I'm stunned that 1992 is not mentioned on a frequent basis. I vividly recall that year as a south FL resident not only because of Andrew, but also because of 1992's incredible impact on the United States. Consider the fact that the year featured a Category 5 strike (Andrew) on the Bahamas, south Florida, and Louisiana (Cat 3); the strongest Hawaiian landfall on record (Iniki), which struck Kauai'i with winds of Categort 4 strength and devastated many residences from one end to the north side; and a Category 4 (SSHS) typhoon named Omar that struck the United States territory of Guam and brought impressive winds to the island, as documented by Jim Leonard's video. Has anyone seen the Kauai'i video taken during Iniki as well? It is quite remarkable, and it is easily one of the most impressive videos during a tropical cyclone landfall.

Other extremely notable Atlantic seasons are 1926 and 1928. These years were quite deadly for the Caribbean and CONUS. In 1926, the sixth storm (the infamous south FL Miami/Fort Lauderdale hurricane) co-existed with three additional tropical cyclones, including a weakening TS off the Florida Keys; a >975 mb hurricane recurving west of Bermuda; and another hurricane further east over the subtropical North Atlantic. Some of the highest winds recorded at the time were measured by a reliable (!) anemometer on the roof of the coastal Allison Hospital in Miami Beach during the 1926 Miami hurricane on September 18. The anemometer recorded sustained winds in excess of 120 mph for several consecutive minutes during the eastern eyewall before it was blown off the roof. All of the three CONUS landfalls struck Florida or the Gulf Coast; two were major hurricanes (Cat 3 in Louisiana/Cat 4 in south Florida). The first TC of the season killed +50 in Puerto Rico from flooding, became a major (Cat 3) hurricane over the Bahamas, and made landfall on Cape Canaveral (Cat 2) and Merritt Island in late July. 1928 featured the San Felipe TC, which speaks for itself.

1998 featured the extremely intense, deadly Mitch (late October Cat 5 at 155 kt/905 mb) and Georges. This year is often overlooked, but it yielded Bonnie (Cat 2 in North Carolina) and Earl (Cat 1 in the Florida Panhandle), the latter of which caused locally extensive coastal flooding via storm surge. 1998 was very deadly in the Caribbean and Central America, claiming far too many lives. Georges also struck the Monroe County Keys and Mississippi during the latter half of its life span as well.

1999 was very impressive with a high ACE and five Category 4 hurricanes. Floyd approached Category 5 intensity (135 kt/921 mb) east of the Bahamas; caused significant flooding in the CONUS and extensive to severe damage on the Abaco Islands; and provided very large waves and a memorable close call for the east coast of Florida. I lived through the close brush; I remember it, and its sole lasting impact was further interest in meteorology.

2004 and 2005 do not need any description.

Other impressive seasons:

1924 (Atlantic)
1932 (Atlantic)
1933 (Atlantic; does not need any description)
1935 (Atlantic)
1938 (Atlantic)
1944 (Atlantic)
1961 (Atlantic)
1969 (Atlantic)
1970 (very melancholy North Indian season for Bangladesh)
1974 (Severe Tropical Cyclone Tracy during South Indian season)
1988 (Atlantic)
1989 (Atlantic)
1995 (Atlantic and WPAC)
1997 (WPAC)
2001 (Atlantic)

...and 2007 was remarkable as well - I can't believe I inexplicably didn't place it on the list.

[bob rulz]

I'm surprised that 2007 has gotten so much love. Yes, Dean and Felix were amazing, and I was very intrigued by Humberto, but I was bored to death for most of the rest of the season.