Most beautiful storm this year?

bigmoney755 · #81 Postby **bigmoney755** » Sun Jul 02, 2006 11:07 pm

well going from 175mph to 125mph in a few hours is just insane. It's like the same rate it intensified at, it weakend at. Its like someone took a knife and carved out its entire western side. What is amazing about the 2005 season is even though we had 4 cat 5 hurricanes, the strongest hurricane to make landfall was a cat 3. Heck, Wilma made landfall with the same windspeeds as katrina at 125mph.

wxmann_91 · #82 Postby **wxmann_91** » Sun Jul 02, 2006 11:12 pm

It's not insane. WPAC supertyphoons have also weakened at that rate. North GOM just does not support anything about a 3, maybe a 4 if a hurricane happens to ride a warm eddy to the coast.

#83 Postby **AnnularCane** » Sun Jul 02, 2006 11:16 pm

It's not that hard to believe, considering they don't tend to stay at Cat. 5 strength for very long.

They are all beautiful (not an easy choice!), but I have to go with Miss Kat. I love big wide eyes on hurricanes. Wilma would probably be my next choice...she couldn't make up her mind what she wanted her eye to look like. :wink:

Doesn't Maria look a lot like an embryo?

bigmoney755 · #84 Postby **bigmoney755** » Sun Jul 02, 2006 11:19 pm

After seeing all the hurricanes in the northern Gulf rapidly fall apart 6 hours prior to landfall, I find it unlikely that Camille hit with 190mph winds. It just did not happen.

wxmann_91 · #85 Postby **wxmann_91** » Sun Jul 02, 2006 11:30 pm

I agree, bigmoney. It was probably a strong Cat 4 at landfall. But that is for a different topic...

#86 Postby **mvtrucking** » Sun Jul 02, 2006 11:48 pm

wxmann_91 wrote:
LaPlaceFF wrote:How can yall say hurricanes are beautiful? They are ugly and do damage.

As I have stated and emphasized many times whenever I mention a hurricane is beautiful, when voting in polls like these, you must forget everything bad these hurricanes did and just treat them like fish. I know, it's hard. These polls are based on beauty at their peak on sats. Look at the sats I posted and judge them by beauty (remember, not devastation).

Well said. These storms are beautiful & awe inspiring at their most powerful stages, but terrifying in the end. Mother Nature's reminder, at just how ferocious, her fury can be.

quandary · #87 Postby **quandary** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 10:02 am

bigmoney755 wrote:well going from 175mph to 125mph in a few hours is just insane. It's like the same rate it intensified at, it weakend at. Its like someone took a knife and carved out its entire western side. What is amazing about the 2005 season is even though we had 4 cat 5 hurricanes, the strongest hurricane to make landfall was a cat 3. Heck, Wilma made landfall with the same windspeeds as katrina at 125mph.

That is only in the United States... Dennis made landfall as a high end Cat 4 and Emily also a Cat 4.

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