2012 Atlantic Hurricane Season

[jinftl]

Add one more attribute to the 2012 hurricane season - for 60 million people, it will be a season that is remembered for generations to come thanks to Sandy.

Not only is this one of the busiest seasons on record, it is now one of the costliest hurricane seasons on record.

It's cliche, but all it takes is one storm to make a season infamous. Done.

Season predictions, the monitoring of tenth of a degree changes in the waters off of the Galapagos Islands, the SOI index off Tahiti, blah blah blah....

[Ptarmigan]

2012 Hurriacane Season will be an infamous one for sure.

[Ptarmigan]

About damage comparisons, I made a great point up above. A 150 kt small Cat 5 hitting Kenedy County, TX would likely do far less damage than even a sprawling 35 kt tropical storm hitting where Sandy hit.

Now if it was a large 150 knot hurricane hitting a populated area................................

[HurricaneRyan]

I think it is safe to say that no more storms will form this year. If that turns out to be true, 2012 went out with a bang!

[supercane4867]

The season has come to an END

[Florida1118]

The season has come to an END

Well apparently you haven't looked at the models. There are 16 days left.

[jinftl]

Not soon enough - if you had asked any person on this board on October 1st if they thought this season would go down in history for the sheer force nature unleashed, i would feel comfortable saying 0-1% would have (and most of the 1% would have been contrary for the sake of being contrary).

And if I had said that the Thanksgiving wish of 120,000 mainly on Long Island would be to see power restored by Thanksgiving, would anyone (myself included) believed such a thing?

It ain't over to the fat lady sings, and Sandy was apparently that lady.

$55 billion later - there will still be some who marvel why the U.S. hasn't seen a major hurricane hit since Wilma. No question that the lack of Cat 3 or higher hitting us has no relation to the damage lesser storms have done.

The season has come to an END

[CrazyC83]

Not soon enough - if you had asked any person on this board on October 1st if they thought this season would go down in history for the sheer force nature unleashed, i would feel comfortable saying 0-1% would have (and most of the 1% would have been contrary for the sake of being contrary).

And if I had said that the Thanksgiving wish of 120,000 mainly on Long Island would be to see power restored by Thanksgiving, would anyone (myself included) believed such a thing?

It ain't over to the fat lady sings, and Sandy was apparently that lady.

$55 billion later - there will still be some who marvel why the U.S. hasn't seen a major hurricane hit since Wilma. No question that the lack of Cat 3 or higher hitting us has no relation to the damage lesser storms have done.

The season has come to an END

There have been devastating November hurricanes in history too...especially in 1932 and 1994.

[Ptarmigan]

The season has come to an END

I am done with this season.

[Ptarmigan]

There have been devastating November hurricanes in history too...especially in 1932 and 1994.

1932-Cuba Hurricane. Latest Category 5 and killed more than 3,103 people.
1994-Hurricane Gordon. Killed 1,122 in Haiti from flooding. The name Gordon should of been retired along with Alberto in 1994.

[WeatherGuesser]

So, we've got like 13 days left officially, but what about December? I mean, the world is supposed to end, right? Have there been devastating storms in Decembers past?

[wxman57]

With the jet stream digging down across the Gulf, through the Caribbean and into the Tropical Atlantic, the season appears over for the Gulf and Caribbean. The only possibility of another named storm would be from a hybrid/subtropical storm in the open Atlantic, and even that looks remote.

http://mag.ncep.noaa.gov/NCOMAGWEB/appc ... mageSize=M

[CrazyC83]

With the jet stream digging down across the Gulf, through the Caribbean and into the Tropical Atlantic, the season appears over for the Gulf and Caribbean. The only possibility of another named storm would be from a hybrid/subtropical storm in the open Atlantic, and even that looks remote.

http://mag.ncep.noaa.gov/NCOMAGWEB/appc ... mageSize=M

In 2005, we had three systems like that to end the year though, although that was an extraordinary year.

[floridasun78]

i see end season is here it was busy season for alot us in east coast and gulf ny and nj saw good storm in sandy too that will take time to recovery their will recovery i have to say good that season is almost over we can joy winter season