What is the best looking Hurricane ?

storm2000 · #1 Postby **storm2000** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 9:03 pm

What is the best looking Hurricane you have seen was it andrew or somthing.

AussieMark · #2 Postby **AussieMark** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 9:05 pm

Mitch looked stunnign when he was at peak intensity (180 mph 905 mb) just northwest of Honduras

Josephine96 · #3 Postby **Josephine96** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 9:06 pm

The 3 best looking hurricanes I've ever seen were all in the last few years..

Andrew, Mitch, and Iniki {in the Pacific} or Floyd.. it's a tie for that 3rd one lol

#4 Postby **JtSmarts** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 9:08 pm

The best hurricanes I've seen were Andrew, Hugo, and Floyd.

chadtm80 · #5 Postby **chadtm80** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 9:11 pm

Mitch

bkhusky2 · #6 Postby **bkhusky2** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 9:31 pm

1. Linda (EPAC)
2. Camille (GOM)
3. Gilbert (Caribbean)

hurricanedude · #7 Postby **hurricanedude** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 9:34 pm

MITCH!!!!! by far

Josephine96 · #8 Postby **Josephine96** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 9:36 pm

I agree with you Hurricane Dude.. Mitch was a classic.. Did they ever get an official death toll for Mitch, cause I know they kept tossing numbers around..

chadtm80 · #9 Postby **chadtm80** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 9:38 pm

Honduras suspends official over death toll
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 1998 - Honduras announced Tuesday that it suspended a governor for inflating her region's death toll from Hurricane Mitch. It also lowered its official death count by 1,350 people.

The new death toll of 5,657 was compiled after the government sent teams to verify reports from regions across Honduras, the Interior Secretariat said Tuesday.

The governor, Lucila Esperanza Barahona de Castro of the Santa Barbara region in remote northwestern Honduras, was suspended after investigators could verify only 282 of the 1,159 deaths reported in her area.

Authorities said the suspension was standard procedure during an inquiry.

Barahona told The Associated Press she couldn't have falsified the numbers because she didn't even give a death toll to the federal government.

''I don't know what source gave them the numbers,'' she said Tuesday.

In addition to the 5,657 dead, Honduras said it had verified 8,058 missing, 12,272 injured and 1.4 million homeless throughout the country.

Aid workers and journalists began questioning Honduras' estimated death toll after figures jumped drastically Nov. 2, two days after news broke of a landslide in Nicaragua that covered two villages and killed up to 2,000 people.

That day, Honduras' official death toll jumped from 600 to 5,000. Later, authorities raised the figure to 6,400, then last week to 7,007.

Luis Torres, spokesman for the committee overseeing the relief effort, told The Associated Press that ''all the information is being verified by the mayors' offices, the army, the police, public and private rescue groups and the authorities of the 18 provinces of the country.''

The revised figure from Honduras lowers the overall death toll in Central America from Hurricane Mitch to 9,071.

Meanwhile, Honduras' legislature restored its bill of rights, which was suspended Nov. 2 when flooding from Mitch sparked looting and banditry, and ended an 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew. Lawmakers said the emergency had been overcome.

The government also reversed its explanation for a helicopter crash that killed the overwhelmingly popular mayor of the capital, Cesar Castellanos, a 50-year-old neurosurgeon who was considered the top candidate to become Honduras' next president.

Officials had blamed mechanical failure, but said Tuesday that human error caused the crash, which occurred while Castellanos was surveying hurricane damage.

"Pilot Jose Miranda caused the tragedy when he made an unplanned maneuver, which caused the craft the crash into high-tension cables and fall to the ground,'' Judge Dagoberto Aspra said Tuesday.

He spoke after listening to audiotapes of communications between the pilot and the control tower.

Miranda was also killed in the crash.

By The Associated Press

ameriwx2003 · #10 Postby **ameriwx2003** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 9:40 pm

I would have to say Mitch. Here is a link to find your favorite hurricane sat pic

:)

http://www5.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/hsei/ ... ick_search

bkhusky2 · #11 Postby **bkhusky2** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 9:43 pm

Here's an image of Gilbert I found, still can't believe it hit 888mb!
[img] http://extremestorms.com/gilbert_vis[1].jpg [/img]

Stormsfury · #12 Postby **Stormsfury** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 9:45 pm

Gilbert ... I can't believe no one mentioned Gilbert ... wait, I take that back, someone else did when I posted this....

ameriwx2003 · #13 Postby **ameriwx2003** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 9:46 pm

Hmmmmmmmmm.. You make a great case there SF:):)

chadtm80 · #14 Postby **chadtm80** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 9:50 pm

bkhusky2 did SF, and it is a Very Impressive storm.. VERY VERY impressive... Mitch has just always been the one that I remember

bkhusky2 · #15 Postby **bkhusky2** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 9:50 pm

Gilbert was a monster, wonder if anything will ever have a lower pressure than he did.

weathergymnast · #16 Postby **weathergymnast** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 9:51 pm

Gilbert's got my vote.. Though I wish there was an image of Super Typhoon tip. ^^"

OtherHD · #17 Postby **OtherHD** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 10:05 pm

Gilbert, by far. Mitch doesn't even come close.

But he is a comfortable second.

I'm sure Allen would be way up there as well, if only we had more pics of him as a Cat5.

Even as a full fledged 5, Camille's sat pics have never impressed me.

#18 Postby **BayouVenteux** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 10:06 pm

I've seen several beautiful-looking ones via satellite views (Elena '85, Gilbert, Mitch, Hugo) and one very ugly one from ground level (Andrew).

I'll take mine via satellite, thanks. :wink:

OtherHD · #19 Postby **OtherHD** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 10:09 pm

Gymnast, here's some of Tip...

http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/imag ... aa6vis.gif

http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/imag ... aa6vis.gif

Not very impressive IMO...Gilbert still wins. :wink:

weathergymnast · #20 Postby **weathergymnast** » Mon Sep 08, 2003 10:11 pm

Yea after seeing those... (can't reallly compare the technology though) I would say Gilbert. ^^"

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