Your favorite track of all time

[Cyclone1]

The Atlantic is dead right now, and I'm curious. What is your favorite tropical cyclone track of all time? I know it's hard to choose favorites, but think it through. My favorite is probably Hurricane Buelah in 1967.

Track.

It's my favorite, not becuase of its trajectory, but because of it's many vast strength fluctuations. It rapidly strengthened to a category four in the eastern Carib before falling back to a tropical storm, only to reach category three strength again before weakening to a category two and landfalling in Mexico. It then kept its strength over the Yucatan and deepened to a category five before falling apart just hours before landfall in Texas.

So anyway, I think that's my favorite (though its a close race with that Florida Keys storm in 1906, and Gordon in 94). But enough about me. What's your favorite track and why? If you reply, include a link to the Unisys track.

[Aric Dunn]

My favorite has always been Ts Gordon.. Living in Melbourne at the time it left Florida then did like a two or three day loop and made landfall again in the same county !!

[Aric Dunn]

its actually amazing the path it took .. how it survived still baffles people

[Cyclone1]

Gordy's always been a favorite of mine, too.

[Aric Dunn]

it caused a lot of problems too

Hurricane Gordon was a long-lived system that remained a tropical storm for most of its existence and followed a winding, atypical track through the western Caribbean and into Florida. Although Gordon was only a tropical storm for most of its long existence, it caused enormous damage. A United Nations estimate of the death toll in Haiti was 1,122. There were six deaths reported in Costa Rica, five in the Dominican Republic, two in Jamaica, two in Cuba, and eight in Florida. Despite the death toll, the World Meteorological Organization did not retire the name, issuing an official statement crediting Jamaica and Cuba's warning infrastructure for the low loss of life there, and blaming Haiti's lack of such a system for the large number of deaths there.

Property damage in the United States was estimated at $400 million (1994 US dollars). Property damage statistics for other affected areas are not available, but were reportedly severe in both Haiti and Cuba

[vmax135]

Mine has always been Hurricane Donna... the classic Cape Verde long-track system...




Here's a cool animation I made from some "still" radar images of Donna at landfall in Florida.
(Sorry about the shakiness, the original images were all a little off from each other)



-=Michael=-
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[rockyman]

Elena '85...my first experience with a looper...if you'll notice...the storm ended up pretty much where it would've gone had it not looped:

[HurricaneJoe22]

she decided to turn east and give Florida a scare and then she said "Sike!" and headed to Miss.

[HurricaneBill]

Mine would be Hurricane Georges in 1998. I've always been intrigued by Georges. He probably took one of the worst paths possible through the Caribbean. 7 landfalls as a hurricane. Remaining a hurricane even after passing over Hispaniola and traveling over Cuba. First hurricane since 1932 to travel westward across the entire island of Puerto Rico. As a result, one of Puerto Rico's worst hurricanes in recent memory.

Could you imagine the activity on Storm2k if Georges had hit now?

[Chacor]

This one doesn't even need words!



Alternatively,

[DanKellFla]

My favorite path is any path that leads away from my house! After that, it is the storm that got Spain. Just too funny.
(This is like the question, What is your favorite beer? Free, of course. )

[caneman]

Hands down Hurricane Elena

[Ixolib]

Loop-de-loop Betsy 1965. My first experience with a hurricane....

[Berwick Bay]

"Racer's Storm" 1837. Couldn't find a graphic, so I'll use words. Storm first observed early in October in NW Carib. Its a hurricane. Crosses the Yucutan and on into Upper Mexican Coast (just barely inland) just south of Brownsville. Its October, and the storm feels the pull of recurvature. It reemerges off the Brownsville area heading N up the Texas Coast, and then NE parallel to the Upper Texas Coast, and then NE to ENE into La Coastal Waters. Major storm surge as hurricane enters New Orleans area. Storm heads inland in that New Orleans-Miss Area and is noted as a significant disturbance as it crosses the SE US on its way back out to see in North Carolina.

[Berwick Bay]

"Racer's Storm" 1837. Couldn't find a graphic, so I'll use words. Storm first observed early in October in NW Carib. Its a hurricane. Crosses the Yucutan and on into Upper Mexican Coast (just barely inland) just south of Brownsville. Its October, and the storm feels the pull of recurvature. It reemerges off the Brownsville area heading N up the Texas Coast, and then NE parallel to the Upper Texas Coast, and then NE to ENE into La Coastal Waters. Major storm surge as hurricane enters New Orleans area. Storm heads inland in that New Orleans-Miss Area and is noted as a significant disturbance as it crosses the SE US on its way back out to see in North Carolina.

[Trader Ron]

I have two. The 1938 Hurricane, ( no i don't remember it) and Donna. I had water in my house from Donna.

[Toadstool]

Hurricane Ivan, for popping out over the northeast and then coming all the way back down for another run...

[vmax135]

Loop-de-loop Betsy 1965. My first experience with a hurricane....

Betsy has always been one of my favorites too.

-=Michael=-
http://www.tropmet.com

['CaneFreak]

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

My 'ole buddy Dennis....he was not a monster hurricane at any point in his life, but I do admire his track...he was a beaut..I vividly remember the ridge coming down from Canada that blocked this one from heading out to sea when it came by NC the first time...I remember the forecasters saying, "We may not be done with Dennis the menace just yet.." Sure enough he came back a second time. It was one for the record books here in NC..IMO..

[HalloweenGale]

I have three:


Alberto(1988) for becoming a TS east of Nantucket

Bob(1991)

No-Name(1991)