Season 2005

[krysof]

Well?

[HURAKAN]

THE GREEK NAMES!

[conestogo_flood]

There should be an everything button.

[Coredesat]

I second the "everything" button.

[hurricanefreak1988]

Both Vince and us getting into Greek names. I never thought I'd see either happen, especially the latter.

[Buck]

WEIRDEST? Vince.

CRAZIEST? Greek.

[southerngale]

All of the above.

[wxmann_91]

What about lowest pressure and fastest bombing ever recorded in Atlantic (Wilma)?

All in all, everything about this season has been weird.

[cjrciadt]

EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!

[MiamiensisWx]

Everything, definately!

[johngaltfla]

Vince. If storms forming there and heading into Spain and Morocco become the norm, how long until storms form, pass through the straits and start hitting Italy and France?

And then how long until we start seeing more storms hitting South America?

[mike815]

What really got me was the amount of cat 5. There truly very rare. There like the hand of god. They dont pop out like hot cakes. That what scares me. Kinda makes me think someone is agrey.

[Aslkahuna]

The following list of MEASURED (and NOT satellite estimated) pressures for storms should interest everyone

STY Tip 870mb 1979
STY June 876mb 1975
STY Ida 877mb 1958
STY Nora 877mb 1973
STY Rita 878 mb 1978
STY Vanessa 879mb 1984
HR WILMA 882mb 2005
STY Forrest 883mb 1983

Those are the 8 storms with the 7 LOWEST MEASURED SLPS in the World as measured by recon. Based upon what I saw in my perusal of the JTWC ATCRs, the pressure for Gilbert (888mb) may not be in the top ten anymore. Be that as it may, Wilma's lowest pressure of 882 mb would have been fairly noteworthy in WPAC

Steve

[Brent]

I second the "everything" button.

Same here...

[EDR1222]

It all seemed to start with that EPAC system at the very beginning that was forecast to cross eastward into the Atlantic. That signaled the beginning of a very odd and amazing season.

[DESTRUCTION5]

3 Cat5's...The only thing we need to worry about in the future..Majors making landfall..

[Zackiedawg]

How about the number of times someone expressed relief that something isn't as bad as it could be this year, just before it got worse?

Hurricane Katrina - 'thank god it has dropped to a cat 4 just before landfall...at least it won't exceed Camille'...followed by record storm surge and total annihilation in Mississippi exceeding what Camille did.

Hurricane Katrina - 'well, it's early morning here in New Orleans, and thank god we've dodged the bullet. The storm jogged east at the last minute, sparing New Orleans the catastrophic flooding they feared'...followed by the catastrophic flooding they feared.

Hurricane Rita - 'well it looks like it didn't have the expected storm surge and avoided Galveston, so the gulf coast dodged another bullet'...followed by catastrophic surge in SW Louisiana and dozens of small towns wiped off the coast.

Hurricane Stan - 'well, thank god it is going to quickly lose strength and not have any significant impact'...followed by the remnants killing thousands as it flooded out mountain villages.

Hurricane Wilma - 'Thank god it is moving very fast as it approaches Florida...it shouldn't have much more than a minor impact on heavily populated areas of south Florida, and should spare the Keys and Cuba'...followed by a major impact on South Florida, swamping Key West and Cuba's worst flood in Havana in 100 years.

Despite the increasing accuracy of the forecasting and prediction of hurricanes, the talking heads and sensationalist news agencies who speak without knowledge and often too soon are still making everyone look bad. Either they overplay a storm's impact for days leading up, and when it fails to live up to the hype people stop taking storms as seriously, or they start making far-too-early comments about the reducing threat and danger causing people to find themselves unprepared as a storm makes a surprising impact.

I wonder if a storm will ever hit the United States where the news agencies don't have to have an idiot in a raincoat leaning into the wind and talking about the rain stinging their face...and maybe one day we'll have a destructive storm in which the news agencies will actually let emergency and government agencies do their work, get organized, and assess damage and infrastructure before making their own predictions about how much damage there is and how well or badly it was handled...3 minutes after the storm has passed.

[TheEuropean]

I voted Vince because he was the first storm to hit continental europe.

[JtSmarts]

WEIRDEST? Vince.

CRAZIEST? Greek.

I agree totally.

[quandary]

If we had only beaten the record by 1 or 2, then it would've been the Cat 5s. Although the pair of strong Cat 4s is almost as unlikely. However, the fact that we beat the maximum by 5 storms and the maximum number of depressions by 8 is amazing. Think of how small the odds of this are given mean and standard deviation.