Hurricane Season Coming to an End!

[Downdraft]

Well my friends you look at the calendar and then you look around the basin and your almost ready to start drinking this years bottles of water. I see football on the tube, pumpkins in the stores and pretty soon the smell of turkey in the oven. With thoughts of Mexico in mind I can't say it's been another quiet season for all but thank God no major disasters in the U.S. Whatever the reason most of the darts thankfully missed the obvious bulls-eyes again. Mother Nature being her nothing is ever in the bag but right now I've got the fork out and pretty soon I'll be sticking it in.

[Steve]

Before you stab the meat that is the rest of the season with your fork, give it another week or so. I'd be real interested to see if anything forms in the WC or BOC following the next front and large high pressure settling down toward the Gulf. Might not be anything, but the pattern does hint of something.

Steve

[Opal storm]

Well my friends you look at the calendar and then you look around the basin and your almost ready to start drinking this years bottles of water. I see football on the tube, pumpkins in the stores and pretty soon the smell of turkey in the oven. With thoughts of Mexico in mind I can't say it's been another quiet season for all but thank God no major disasters in the U.S. Whatever the reason most of the darts thankfully missed the obvious bulls-eyes again. Mother Nature being her nothing is ever in the bag but right now I've got the fork out and pretty soon I'll be sticking it in.

Well said and agreed. Yeah there might be something left from '07, but I'm looking ahead at this week's forecast with our first real blast of cool weather coming down and the tropics are becoming the least of my interest/concern.

[lrak]

I see something spinning

Nope just a cold coming towards me coast.

Breaks out wet suits

[weatherwoman]

i'm stil waiting for it to begin what a joke this year!

[DanKellFla]

i'm stil waiting for it to begin what a joke this year!

Two Cat. 5s that make landfall is hysterical. ......

The CONUS was spared this year, and I will be happy to live this joke over and over again.

[Category 5]

i'm stil waiting for it to begin what a joke this year!

The season was not a joke, however that statement was.

Mexico and Central america were devestated. I don't think the north Texas coast is laughing ether.

[lrak]

The the number of forecasted Hurricanes has been the real joke.

Totally over played, every invest was almost worshiped to become a killer, and this goes back to the 2006 season as well.

[Category 5]

The the number of forecasted Hurricanes has been the real joke.

Totally over played, every invest was almost worshiped to become a killer, and this goes back to the 2006 season as well.

After 2005, many have struggled to return to reality.

[Opal storm]

i'm stil waiting for it to begin what a joke this year!

Yeah the people down in the Caribbean and Mexico would most definitely agree with you.

[boca]

I have to say that this season been over since the first week in Oct due to the westerlies and high shear.Now looking forward to a humidity breaking cold front.

[MiamiensisWx]

I have to say that this season been over since the first week in Oct due to the westerlies and high shear.Now looking forward to a humidity breaking cold front and widespread rainfall over the parched Southeast/Lake O.

I added the crucial line. This winter will be a significant disappointment if the region and Lake Okeechobee doesn't receive consistent precipitation. I can sense additional water restrictions for south FL in early 2008. Honestly, I have not been caring about my lawn's appearance. I prefer dormant or dry Saint Augustine grass; it's more resistent to future drought. The impetus for conservation should be a year-round event in south FL, in my opinion. The South Florida Water Management District is one of the few Florida regions that have not adopted year-round restrictions.

[Category 5]

[Brent]

Now let's see if the storm does something or follows in Barry, Gabrielle, Ingrid, and Karen's footsteps.

[Frank2]

Yesterday I was more concerned, but, after seeing the official forecast track (and hearing what Steve Lyons said one hour ago), it seems that this system will make a hard right and not affect Florida, but, it might affect Cuba and the Bahamas...

We'll see what happens...

[jinftl]

No matter the outcome...making it to the 5-day cone for TD #16 (but forecast to be Noel during the time frame we are in the cone) has been by far the most interesting storm development all season for my area.

This just reinforces the idea that late October is certainly not time to let your guard down in South Florida!

[apocalypt-flyer]

OMG THIS SEASON'S SO OVA!!!!eleven11



Talk about counting your chickens before they're hatched .. :s

[Category 5]

And look what we have now. Things are going to be intresting today and tommorow. And the CONUS is involved so people will care.

[caribepr]

Interestingly, "people caring" seems to be remarkably absent over the long haul of Noel. I read year after year how certain people "love tracking storms! love to see the power of Nature! love to learn more about the workings of hurricanes!" yet here is a storm that has been extremely unusual, of terrifically changing and long lasting duration, but if I see the numbers of those truly following the system correctly, it is low low low as to those really being involved actively on the board. What I see a lot more of is the typical season over, blah blah blah that occur this time of year (well, for the last two months), regardless of what is actually going on (yes, I know this post title...but it's certainly not a subject confined to this post).
I will say, the current comments and questions [in the active storms section] are, for the most part, much more interesting and informative and lacking in the litter of debris that usually clutters the board during an active storm.
Just an observation

[Pebbles]

Some of us are watching and popping on the boards daily.. just not posting. Everything that needs saying has been said (which I find to be the case most of this year) so not adding redundent comments. Find many of these storms very interesting in fact. A lot can be learned from why storms did not form into monsters (along with the ones that did!)

P.S. I do think people were not around or don't remember what it was like before '04/'05. There was always hype even about the lil ones on this forum...