Most beautiful storm this year?

[LaPlaceFF]

I will not judge a hurricane. I have lost enough already.

[f5]

I believe this was her closest approach as a 5

she looks like her eyewall at least made it to the mississippi delta

[SouthFloridawx]

Classic Katrina

[camilletider]

LaPlaceFF, while I understand your complaint, I believe that it is probably just a matter of the considerable differences between many of our personalities or " the way we are wired ". I share the view of those in this thread that the the eye of an intense hurricane is one of the most incredibly beautiful and awe inspiring images in all of nature. At the same time, I have found myself quite affected by the images and stories of the suffering theses storms have brought and my own wrecked health is the only thing that has stopped me from sinking much of my own life in the rebuiilding and relief effort. The other night I could not stop the tears a number of times as I saw the misery of Katrina relived on the National Geographic special and the gross incompetance and destructive arrogance of the government officials that should have been so much more help than they actually were.

The difference is that I am able, as perhaps a number of others are, to seperate the science and images of an event from the consequences during and afterward, at least enough to still find myself still very interested in storm meteorology and threads such as this one. I'm a flawed human. Please just accept me as I am as long as I do not hurt anyone or impose anything destructive upon anyone or attack or insult anyone. As long as we do the same for each other we can have a fun and good natured forum. If I sound condescending or preachy or anything like that I didn't mean to. I hope ya'll get my drift.

[camilletider]

This as close the perfect eye as I have seen. I am referring to symmetry, clearing out of the eye of clouds, etc. Note the uniform columns of clouds lain over at about 30 degrees almost like rope in circles going higher and higher.




One eyewall with little or no evidence of concentric development and not as pronounced feeder bands as on many intense hurricanes. Point: enormous energy concentrated in eye in unusual uniformity. Yes, I am very aware that these are the remarks of the untrained eye but this is for fun isn't it.



Good basic pic

[Jim Cantore]

How can yall say hurricanes are beautiful? They are ugly and do damage.

Hurricanes are one of those things thats beautiful to look at but deadly

[Jim Cantore]

I believe this was her closest approach as a 5

she looks like her eyewall at least made it to the mississippi delta

might have been cat 5 gusts say near Pilottown but if there are high enough gusts l (like 170+) then maybe they can look at the possiblity that she did hit as a 5 I doubt it but you never know

I wonder if there are readings in that area because I dont think its that populated down there and the instruments may have not survived.

[LaPlaceFF]

LaPlaceFF, while I understand your complaint, I believe that it is probably just a matter of the considerable differences between many of our personalities or " the way we are wired ". I share the view of those in this thread that the the eye of an intense hurricane is one of the most incredibly beautiful and awe inspiring images in all of nature. At the same time, I have found myself quite affected by the images and stories of the suffering theses storms have brought and my own wrecked health is the only thing that has stopped me from sinking much of my own life in the rebuiilding and relief effort. The other night I could not stop the tears a number of times as I saw the misery of Katrina relived on the National Geographic special and the gross incompetance and destructive arrogance of the government officials that should have been so much more help than they actually were.

The difference is that I am able, as perhaps a number of others are, to seperate the science and images of an event from the consequences during and afterward, at least enough to still find myself still very interested in storm meteorology and threads such as this one. I'm a flawed human. Please just accept me as I am as long as I do not hurt anyone or impose anything destructive upon anyone or attack or insult anyone. As long as we do the same for each other we can have a fun and good natured forum. If I sound condescending or preachy or anything like that I didn't mean to. I hope ya'll get my drift.

This may explain why I dont like to Judge storms
http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=76841

[f5]

I believe this was her closest approach as a 5

she looks like her eyewall at least made it to the mississippi delta

might have been cat 5 gusts say near Pilottown but if there are high enough gusts l (like 170+) then maybe they can look at the possiblity that she did hit as a 5 I doubt it but you never know

I wonder if there are readings in that area because I dont think its that populated down there and the instruments may have not survived.

if she did hit down there as a CAT 5 the good news is that those winds weakened over a highly unpopulated area.or otherwise N.O would of been in big trouble.she tested her CAT 5 surge on the most surge coastline in the country.she couldn't of picked a better spot CAT 5 surge at high tide.I also wonder if Charley was a CAT 5.if he had more time to strengthen he would of went into Tampa Bay with 165-170mph sustained winds.Tampa was very lucky

[wxmann_91]

For those who haven't voted or who haven't seen the beautiful pics I will bump this up.

[MiamiensisWx]

*BUMP*

[Matt-hurricanewatcher]

I thought Katrina was amazing...What a pretty pretty storm she was. Fellowed by Rita then Emily. I don't care what any one says Emily for a short time when I saw the close up visible at the time it was at its peak. Was in fact a cat5. I don't care the nhc said it was for a short time.

Wilma was a nice storm to but more Amazing!

[f5]

Katrina was a very beautiful storm to watch.If you live in Mississippi Katrina was nothing but a giant bulldozer.she didn't just bulldoze homes she also bulldoze lives in the process.

[EDR1222]

Katrina had that classic look, but then again, so did Rita and Wilma, so I have to go with all three.

[Jim Cantore]

Wilma . . . I sure hope I never see such an IR shot as this again . . .

wilma was incrediable!

remember it was only 100mph at the time of that shot

[Scorpion]

Wilma . . . I sure hope I never see such an IR shot as this again . . .

wilma was incrediable!

remember it was only 100mph at the time of that shot

Recon wasn't in there yet, so the advisories kept it at that but in reality it was most likely a 4 at the time.

[Jim Cantore]

As for cat 5 Gusts with Katrina I found data from buras around the first landfall location

I'd expect gusts about 130-145 there

to my suprise the highest gust was 114mph (99kts)

[Jim Cantore]

I know this thread is SOOOOOOOO long dead but I thought it was cool that it showed up on Google Images

http://images.google.com/images?q=Hurricane+Katrina&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&start=500&sa=N

[wxmann_91]

I don't see it.

[Jim Cantore]

two pics from this thread are on that page