Florida is 2 for 2 This Year, Is This Making You Nervous?

[Ivanhater]

No storms prior to 2003? Ever?

Erin in 1995, Georges in 1998, Floyd in 1999, Irene in 1999...ask locals about those!

Your forgetting a mighty big one...Opal 95

[Opal storm]

Prior to 03 - Florida has only been impacted by one severely sheared TS, and that is being generous...

No offense but I really don't understand this statement. lol

[Stratosphere747]

Prior to 03 - Florida has only been impacted by one severely sheared TS, and that is being generous...

No offense but I really don't understand this statement. lol

Take away the naming of subtropical systems, prior to 03...

Otherwise Florida has really only been effected by what many can argue was a very weak tropical system that brought some beneficial rains. Was hard enough finding a LLC at landfall.

*edit*

Let me clarify that I'm addressing the context of what the author of this thread is implying, hence the naming of a subtropical systems after 03.

Scott

[jaxfladude]

Well, Florida just has to stick out it's middle finger out between the Gulf and the Atlantic, so the hurricane "gods" every so often will take offense and will teach the state a lesson...

[Downdraft]

Climitology favors Florida during the very early season and again during the late season. During the Cape Verdes season it may be a whole different story. Our fate depends on the Bermuda high and the TUTT.

[windstorm99]

So far there no signs of a similar set-up like 2004-2005 and the bermuda high has been in its normal position.If we have an active season it wont matter if the steering currents are your side.Lets hope this pattern continues threw the coming months.

[Jinkers]

I don't worry about it, I have my supplies, I'm storm ready, but I don't worry what might happen or might not happen, I just go about my buisness, and if a storm comes our way, I activate my storm plans, and hubby and I get our shutters up, and my mom's-lol.

~Laura~

[Coquina]

So far there no signs of a similar set-up like 2004-2005 and the bermuda high has been in its normal position.If we have an active season it wont matter if the steering currents are your side.Lets hope this pattern continues threw the coming months.

I hope you are right!

I know we won't have a year like last year (boy do I wish!), but Ernesto hit here pretty hard as a TS (I had a huge queen palm go down) and then we had nothing after that. And also since Barry decided to come in to Tampa Bay, I am sort of thinking that maybe we won't get struck by lightning twice the same year. Of course it could happen and has happened, I'm just thinking that the odds of two storms coming into the same place the same year maybe isn't too high.

[DanKellFla]

jinfl, don't forget Andrew. No shear there.

But, back to the topic. I can live with impacts like this all summer. If beach erosion is the biggest problem from this years season, I will be thrilled.

[Terry]

Actually, I'm more concerned that we have an early season and then it's "storm cancel." I haven't read all of the posts in this thread nor can I recall similar "early start" years. However, I'd take a guess that an "average" year happens because sometimes stuff only happens early in the season.

(Just like our rain in FLA. Drought early in the year = tropical event to produce a "normal" rainfall year.)

[Stormtrack03]

Actually, I'm more concerned that we have an early season and then it's "storm cancel." I haven't read all of the posts in this thread nor can I recall similar "early start" years. However, I'd take a guess that an "average" year happens because sometimes stuff only happens early in the season.

(Just like our rain in FLA. Drought early in the year = tropical event to produce a "normal" rainfall year.)

I think the season has just begun Terry.

[johngaltfla]

As a west coast of Florida resident, I'm more concerned about Sept-Oct-Nov than the early season. That's when we usually get those rude slaps up side the head.

However, August sometimes can wake us up to (Charley).