What seasons do you find the most interesting?

[Matt-hurricanewatcher]

I find 2004 the most interesting, because it was hold onto your butts for 6 weeks of amazing storm formation. It also had power that beat 1998, 1999 seasons; which I thought before that would not easly be beaten. 2005, if it was not for all the storms that it formed, would never of beaten it with overall power. Also, I like the long trackers that came with 2004. Which 2005 did not really have the power houses moving across the Atlantic. It was a lot of home grown western Atlantic storm activy. 2005 was a very amazing season, but for as many storms as 2004 had, I have to give it to 2004 still.

98, 99 where also good seasons with 95, 96.

[Matt-hurricanewatcher]

http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/atl ... index.html

Tracks of the 2004 season.



Ivan the great with 71+ ace. One of the top 10 most intense cyclones in Atlantic history. In one of the highest aces.

http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/atl ... /track.gif

Hurricane Charley the most intense hurricane to hit western Florida since Donna of 1960. Also the hurricane that for a short time to hold number two most costly.

[JonathanBelles]

I have found ever season since 2004 when I started tracking interesting.

[Mecklenburg]

i am really fascinated with the 1999 season... 5 glorious category 4 hurricanes...

[Hurricanehink]

I always was fascinated by the 2003 AHS. It had steady activity throughout the entire year, including a pre-season and two post-seasons. Fabian was the worst Bermuda hurricane in ages, as was Juan in Nova Scotia. I think every storm was interesting in its own regard. Ana was only April TS on record. Bill was a nice start to the GoM season. Claudette was a fairly long-lived July hurricane which hit Texas (people have likened Dolly to Claudette). Danny reached hurricane status furthest north before August. Erika was a neat fast moving storm. Grace was named despite no real evidence of being a real storm. Henri caused some decent damage from its remnants in the Mid-Atlantic. Isabel was the first Cat. 5 Atlantic hurricane since Mitch, among other oddities. Kate was a long-lived storm which never seemed to make up its mind. Larry formed from an extratropical storm and moved south in the Bay of Campeche. Mindy was meh (least interesting in the whole season). Nicholas reached TS status in tropical Atlantic, really late for CV, and its remnants nearly became a subtropical storm near Florida. Odette was only Caribbean storm in December in HURDAT. And lastly Peter almost reached hurricane status in the eastern Atlantic in December. Quite a season

[Matt-hurricanewatcher]

i am really fascinated with the 1999 season... 5 glorious category 4 hurricanes...

Me to, me to. I doubt this season can even have more then one long tracking cat4 like that. "Bertha was a cat3", so it does not count. Seriously.

[cheezyWXguy]

i am really fascinated with the 1999 season... 5 glorious category 4 hurricanes...

Me to, me to. I doubt this season can even have more then one long tracking cat4 like that. "Bertha was a cat3", so it does not count. Seriously.

I cant tell if you do believe that bertha did make it to cat4 or not, but Im willing to bet money that they will up it to at least 125mph...probably 135...I cant see why not, when all data available suggested Bertha was a cat4. However, that brief cat4 strength was in between advisories, so it goes undecided until the post-storm analysis. But I do agree with you that this hurricane season could be a very active one.

[Matt-hurricanewatcher]

i am really fascinated with the 1999 season... 5 glorious category 4 hurricanes...

Me to, me to. I doubt this season can even have more then one long tracking cat4 like that. "Bertha was a cat3", so it does not count. Seriously.

I cant tell if you do believe that bertha did make it to cat4 or not, but Im willing to bet money that they will up it to at least 125mph...probably 135...I cant see why not, when all data available suggested Bertha was a cat4. However, that brief cat4 strength was in between advisories, so it goes undecided until the post-storm analysis. But I do agree with you that this hurricane season could be a very active one.

I think it was a cat4 to, all satellite data shown it to be so.

[HalloweenGale]

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[RL3AO]

1887 and 1933 - Who knows how many storms there actually could have been.
1914 - One storm? Seriously?
1950 - Eight major canes...a record 2005 couldn't get.
2004 - What a six week period.
2005 - A normal season smashed between a bunch of active ones.

[Ad Novoxium]

2005 - A normal season smashed between a bunch of active ones.

Was that sarcasm? 05 was anything BUT normal.

[RL3AO]

2005 - A normal season smashed between a bunch of active ones.

Was that sarcasm? 05 was anything BUT normal.

Maybe.

[Cyclone1]

Hurricanehink: Now that I think about it, 2003 was pretty interesting...

But for me, 1985, no question.

Bob - High ambient atmorspheric pressure poetry in motion, hurricane with a minimum pressure similar to that of a strong depression, 1002mbar.

Caludette - Non-tropical birth near Georgia, travelled almost due East across the entire length of the Atlantic, dying east of the Azores.

Danny - Large, destructive category 1, hitting a part of the gulf that would later be obliterated by Juan.

Elena - Born over Cuba, picked up by a trough, sped towards Florida, stalled, turned around, strengthened, made landfall in Mississippi, died in Illinois, killed no one, and made for one of the most widely published photographs of an Atlantic hurricane ever.

Gloria - A hopeless beginning leading to a sudden strengthening to the strongest Atlantic non-category 5 hurricane until Opal, hit New york City at breakfast, was over Canada by lunch.

Isabel - One of the most damaging tropical systems of the year before it was atcually named, spun around Jacksonville as a naked low for a while.

Juan - Truly massive hurricane, made 4 landfalls, performed 2 loops right off-shore, caused $1 billion in damage, all as a category 1. Name unretired.

Kate - Latest major hurricane on record, made landfall in Florida as a category 2, caused plenty of damage, unretired.

And my personal favorite... the mysterious...

Tropical Depression 13 (?) - The mythical depression that exsisted in December of 1985. Although satellite imagery suggests a a tropical cyclone in the Caribbean on December 7th, 1985, no record of TD13 can be found, or at least, hasn't been found. As of right now, it's is basically a myth.

[Brent]

Just since I've been watching:

1995(mainly Opal), 1996(Bertha and Fran), 1998(Georges), 1999(Bret, Dennis, Floyd and the backwards hurricane Lenny), 2003(Fabian and Isabel), 2004(4 major U.S. hits in 6 weeks), 2005(No explanation needed), 2007(2 Cat 5 landfalls within 2 weeks)

Worst seasons: 1997 and 2006.

[Squarethecircle]

If you're looking around the globe, 1997 pwns pretty much every other year in history. There were around 13 category 5s that season (10 WPAC, 2 EPAC, and one SHEM). My favorite of that year: Typhoon Nestor. It formed on June first.

The ACE for the WPAC season?
594.

[cheezyWXguy]

If you're looking around the globe, 1997 pwns pretty much every other year in history. There were around 13 category 5s that season (10 WPAC, 2 EPAC, and one SHEM). My favorite of that year: Typhoon Nestor. It formed on June first.

The ACE for the WPAC season?
594.

I swear that looks exactly like Hurricane Isabel 2003. How strong was Nestor?

[Patrick99]

2004 and 2005, easily. 1985 and 1998 were pretty interesting too. Worst were 2006, 2007, and 1997. I honestly can't even remember what happened in 2006 and 2007. I remember storm seasons in the 1980s better than those two. Intensely forgettable.

Other than the high activity, didn't find 1995 and 1996 too interesting. Too many storms with the near-same exact recurving track. Say what you will, but storms near land are always inherently more interesting.

[KWT]

Was Nestor annular as well because it really does look like it!

[RL3AO]

I swear that looks exactly like Hurricane Isabel 2003. How strong was Nestor?

140 kt (1-min)/898mb

[KWT]

I honestly can't even remember what happened in 2006 and 2007. I remember storm seasons in the 1980s better than those two. Intensely forgettable.

2007 wasn't too bad was it?

How about two category-5's making landfall (one being a top 10 lowest pressure in the Atlantic basin ever in Dean), unheard off and also the fastest forming system close to land in Humberto, also I velieve the quickest disturbance to hurricane ever in Lorenzo.