What records could be broken this hurricane season?

[Blown Away]

1. Katrina's most costly hurricane record could be broken. It will happen in the Miami/Ft Lauderdale area! I think this area is due for a major hurricane from the south or west. Of course I hope I'm wrong.
2. Storm2k will break the total number of users online at one given time!

[Blown Away]

I think the total number of hours Cycloneye moderates this board will be broken this season!

[CrazyC83]

Sadly one easily breakable record is the deadliest storm ever - if anything were to hit Haiti considering the post-earthquake conditions.

[srainhoutx]

Sadly one easily breakable record is the deadliest storm ever - if anything were to hit Haiti considering the post-earthquake conditions.

This has been one of my greatest concerns regarding this season.

[StormClouds63]

It may be an above average season in terms of activity, but I don't see any records broken in 2010.

[Category 5]

Well lets see, alot of records out there.

Most named storms most hurricanes most majors, strongest hurricane, strongest landfalling, fewest named storms, costliest hurricane, smallest eye, biggest eye, most 24 hour rainfall, longest track, longest life, largest storm, smallest storm, first storm to ever hit Norway, Most landfalls, earliest cat 5, latest cat 5, most storms in a month, .

Or, we may set no records at all.

[Ad Novoxium]

Well lets see, alot of records out there.

Most named storms most hurricanes most majors, strongest hurricane, strongest landfalling, fewest named storms, costliest hurricane, smallest eye, biggest eye, most 24 hour rainfall, longest track, longest life, largest storm, smallest storm, first storm to ever hit Norway, Most landfalls, earliest cat 5, latest cat 5, most storms in a month, .

Or, we may set no records at all.

Largest eye: Typhoon Carmen in the 1960 season had an eye that was 200 miles across.
Longest track: The same season as Carmen saw Typhoon Ophelia take an 8500 mile track (Faith, by comparison, was 7500 miles)

[Cookie]

first hurricane to hit the uk

[Cryomaniac]

first hurricane to hit the uk

That would be interesting. Grace last year came pretty damn close.

[HurrikaneBryce]

The first Category 5 to make landfall on the Outer Banks.

[JTE50]

Sadly one easily breakable record is the deadliest storm ever - if anything were to hit Haiti considering the post-earthquake conditions.

This has been one of my greatest concerns regarding this season.

Even just a tropical storm, if it drops a lot of rain, will be another diaster for Haiti. Remember they have something we don't - mountains near the coastline. Raging torrents of water coming down the mountain scares me more than anything else. Last October in Manila, a tropical storm that dumped copious amounts of rain killed a few hundred people.

[somethingfunny]

Well lets see, alot of records out there.

Most named storms most hurricanes most majors, strongest hurricane, strongest landfalling, fewest named storms, costliest hurricane, smallest eye, biggest eye, most 24 hour rainfall, longest track, longest life, largest storm, smallest storm, first storm to ever hit Norway, Most landfalls, earliest cat 5, latest cat 5, most storms in a month, .

Or, we may set no records at all.

We need an Elias Sports Bureau for weather.

It would track useless records such as "most tropical storms to landfall in Florida in a year that features no tropical storms hitting Texas as well as at least one tropical storm hitting North Carolina"

[Iune]

Most amount of storms forming in 2010 in the Atlantic

[somethingfunny]

Most amount of storms forming in 2010 in the Atlantic

How about LEAST amount of storms forming in 2010 in the Atlantic????

[cycloneye]

2 systems forming in May to tie a record from 1887 when two storms formed in that year.

http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/atl ... index.html

[Texas Snowman]

Well, we're living on borrowed time as far as another Cat 5 hit goes.

1. Keys Labor Day Storm in 1935; 2. Camille in 1969; and 3. Andrew in 1992.

A 34 year gap between #1 and #2. Only a 23 year gap between #2 and #3.

And it has been right at 18 years now since Andrew.

We have been in a period of active storm formation. And a period of intense storm formation.

So if I'm going to make a 2010 prediction of a record falling, it would be for another Cat 5 hit in the U.S.

[Category 5]

The first Category 5 to make landfall on the Outer Banks.

I have no plans to go to the outer...oooooooh a Hurricane not me.

[jinftl]

TCHP values (tropical cyclone heat potential) are at peak season values already in the western caribbean according to a very interesting posting by Mark Sudduth:

"First, let's talk about TCHP or tropical cyclone heat potential. The best way to describe it is to think of it as extra fuel for tropical cyclones. If the surface of the ocean is very warm, but only to a few feet deep, then just about any aggitation of the water will result in its cooling, thus bleeding off energy that would otherwise be used to power the cyclone. On the other hand, if the warm water remained warm to a depth of 50, 100, 300 feet or more, then we are talking about vast quantities of heat energy being available even in the face of strong surface winds and an aggitated sea state. This is what scientists refer to as upper oceanic heat content and the more of it there is, the more energy is available to spawn powerful tropical cyclones. There have been a variety of methods employed over the years to quantify TCHP and I won't go in to that- but just understand that when we see areas with high TCHP, we know that there is at least the potential for significant strengthening of a given tropical cyclone.

Notice last year at around this same time. There was very little TCHP anywhere in the Atlantic- totally within the norm for that time of year. Next, take a look at the same map for April 23 of this year. To say that it is above normal is an understatement. The values of TCHP in the Caribbean are what we would expect in late summer- near the peak of the hurricane season. This means that there is already an enormous amount of stored energy in the Caribbean and portions of the Atlantic- much more so than we would normally see."
http://www.hurricanetrack.com/archive2010.html

[FireBird]

"The values of TCHP in the Caribbean are what we would expect in late summer- near the peak of the hurricane season. This means that there is already an enormous amount of stored energy in the Caribbean and portions of the Atlantic- much more so than we would normally see."

WOW!!
Thanks for sharing this jinftl. I think this year will see a huge blow to the region. And if ever I thought my country would get hit (Trinidad), this year would be the one. So my prediction is for an actual storm landfall in Trini, and sadly, my people are just not prepared.....

[Hurricane Andrew]

The most number of GFS "fantasy storms"