Predicting Hurricane Season - Sans the Science

#21 Postby **canetracker** » Tue May 22, 2007 8:11 pm

WeatherWiseGuy wrote:Okay, here's a pop-quiz based on what we've learned so far. If your booze imbibing dog is standing on his head surrounded by acorns and avocados, what does it mean?

#22 Postby **AnnularCane** » Tue May 22, 2007 8:22 pm

WeatherWiseGuy wrote:Okay, here's a pop-quiz based on what we've learned so far. If your booze imbibing dog is standing on his head surrounded by acorns and avocados, what does it mean?

That means a giant Cat. 20 will swallow up the entire eastern half of the US, according to grandpappy, who did his share of imbibing as well. 8-)

#23 Postby **MGC** » Tue May 22, 2007 8:25 pm

While we were driving east on HWY-90 during our evacuation for Katrina, we noticed that all the sea bird were gone.....MGC

#24 Postby **LAwxrgal** » Tue May 22, 2007 9:51 pm

MGC wrote:While we were driving east on HWY-90 during our evacuation for Katrina, we noticed that all the sea bird were gone.....MGC

Yeah, the birds had disappeared for days before Katrina showed up. They knew to get out of dodge before we did.

#25 Postby **LSU2001** » Tue May 22, 2007 9:51 pm

growing up on the Miss Gulf Coast I always heard about the plentiful Pecan crop. I know in 05 the pecan trees around Baton Rouge were loaded with nuts. After Katrina and Rita there were pecans still in the hull all over the ground. Don't know if there is any truth to it but it does seem to have some incidental merit.
Tim

Javlin · #26 Postby **Javlin** » Tue May 22, 2007 10:27 pm

You know come to think of it I have 2 1/2 oaks out back "no acorns",never thought about it.The one thing I think says something is snow,I can think of three out of four times that it snowed and the NGOM region was impacted by some storm.It snowed in Biloxi on Christmas day 2004,first time in 50 years the paper said.

#27 Postby **StormTracker** » Tue May 22, 2007 10:37 pm

Here in Miami it's the mangos & avocados! In `04 & `05 both did great and you all know the rest of the story(also in `92)! Last year they both did horrible, and you all know the rest of the story!!! I tell friends about this theory every year and they laugh! Let's see whose gonna be laughing this year!!! 8-)

Jagno · #28 Postby **Jagno** » Wed May 23, 2007 12:47 am

Javlin; We too saw snow the winter of 04 and had Rita the following fall.....................just as my 99 year old grandmother said we would before she died in August 05. She was persistant about it too.

#29 Postby **webke** » Wed May 23, 2007 5:14 am

Now that you mention it, the oak tree in my backyard had no acorns this year, which is the first time that has happened in the fifteen years I have lived here.

#30 Postby **HeatherAKC** » Wed May 23, 2007 8:30 am

Stormtracker: I've never heard of the avocado/mango correlation....I do know that my Father's mango tress are having a GREAT season. Tons of mangos!

I've heard of a turtle nesting correlation. They nest further away from the water in years that there are more tropical storms. I haven't heard any news on their nesting this year.

And to add, right before Andrew, yes, the birds were first to go, but it was the bugs that I noticed. In the house, crawling up through a bathroom sink drain looking for higher ground. That was really just a few hours before the worst of the storm and really weird!

Another part of South Florida hurricane lore: Dry May = Hurricane.

cajungal · #31 Postby **cajungal** » Wed May 23, 2007 9:11 am

When it snowed on Christmas Day here, I had a gut feeling it would be a bad hurricane season. Even though there is no scentific proof that there is a connection between the two. It sleeted here the day before Easter. We never, ever got sleet here that late in the season. And it even snowed in parts of Texas that never even see it in the winter much less for Easter. So, who knows? I have a gut feeling it will be way more active than 2006.

StormScanWx · #32 Postby **StormScanWx** » Wed May 23, 2007 9:48 am

I've heard local folklore that says seeing a lot of snakes and turtles near roads are signs of an active hurricane season.

#33 Postby **hial2** » Wed May 23, 2007 11:50 am

[quote="StormScanWx"]I've heard local folklore that says seeing a lot of snakes and turtles near roads are signs of an active hurricane season.[/quote]

And are also a sign that soon there will be a lot of dead turtles and snakes.....

LJR · #34 Postby **LJR** » Wed May 23, 2007 1:34 pm

I just skimmed over this thread to see if the Honeybees were even mentioned!!

#35 Postby **AnnularCane** » Wed May 23, 2007 1:41 pm

LJR wrote:I just skimmed over this thread to see if the Honeybees were even mentioned!!

What do the honeybees do?

LJR · #36 Postby **LJR** » Wed May 23, 2007 2:15 pm

AnnularCane wrote:
LJR wrote:I just skimmed over this thread to see if the Honeybees were even mentioned!!

What do the honeybees do?

They are dissapearing !!
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/27/busin ... 77&ei=5088

#37 Postby **JonathanBelles** » Wed May 23, 2007 2:28 pm

Honeybees are disappearing here too. Yet Africanized bees are moving in.

#38 Postby **AnnularCane** » Wed May 23, 2007 2:38 pm

LJR wrote:
AnnularCane wrote:
LJR wrote:I just skimmed over this thread to see if the Honeybees were even mentioned!!

What do the honeybees do?

They are dissapearing !!
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/27/busin ... 77&ei=5088

I know that.

I was thinking in relation to hurricanes though.

#39 Postby **dizzyfish** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 6:18 am

Had to dredge this topic up.

I noticed something strange this morning and it started me to thinking. :lol:

As I was leaving home at 5:30 this morning I saw a lightning bug in the front yard. Those aren't common at all around here anymore and I thought - gee haven't seen one of those in a long while. By the time I got to work I remembered - the last time I saw one was in early 2004 - shortly after we moved here.

Correlation or not? Don't know, but I certainly hope not! :eek:

#40 Postby **canetracker** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 10:59 am

I ran across this while surfing the net. This is an excerpt taken from an article about Hurricane Audrey (1957).

Two tornadoes were spawned; one in New Orleans and the other in Arnaudville. Out of the 100,000 buildings that experienced damage, several thousand were destroyed. Between 90 and 95 percent of the buildings in Cameron and Lower Vermilion Parishes were damaged beyond repair. The most quoted total of lives lost by all causes due to Audrey is around 526 people ; most of them were in Cameron Parish. Damages in Louisiana totaled $120 million. The most curious aspect of the storm was the exodus of wildlife preceding it. On the evening before landfall, thousands of crawfish were seen fleeing the marshes around Cameron. A few enterprising locals decided to collect them and put them in their freezer, unaware of the significance of this event. Needless to say, these crawfish were never brought to a boil the following day, as planned. See Texas Hurricane History for more on this storm.

The damage is not funny, but the crawfish reaction is.
http://www.thecajuns.com/lahurricanes.htm#September_3rd-4th,_1948

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