Katrina had such a small start...

[smashmode]

...did anyone think it would be the worst hurricane in memory?

I remember when Katrina was just about to leave florida..and many we're saying a cat 1 into the florida panhandle.

Heck..I remember even watching CNN (on the wednesday before katrina struck on monday)

even when many here..and many others we're saying mobile/biloxi..the CNN newsperson said that katrina *might* regain hurricane strength..before hitting the florida panhandle.

[southerngale]

No, I doubt it. I certainly didn't. Here's some random thoughts by a few members I found. It seems wxmann_91 was on target though!



Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 10:26 pm

A few years ago I thought in 1999 Katrina would make landfall in Myrtle Beach as a Cat 5. Katrina's going to be much worse this year though.

Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 10:34 pm

Katrina~Cat 4 into the Gulf Coast. Somewhere near MS/AL (Hope not)

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 11:15 pm

Katrina doesn't strike me as being much of anything... probably like Bret and Gert.

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 12:17 am

Katrina is going to be really bad, trust me.

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 11:36 pm

I think Jose and Katrina will be Cape Verdes that are both equally nasty.

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 11:37 pm

Katrina gives me the jitters too

Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 2:50 pm

K because I still think Katrina is going to be really bad and Jose is going to be a fish, and probably a weak one at that.

[Skywatch_NC]

Wxmann, by chance do you have ESP?

[artist]

didn't it have something to do with an ex-wife or something?!?

[ericinmia]

I keep going back and looking at the video of me walking around durring the eye of Katrina as it sat ontop of my house for 1.5 hours. My weather station only reported ~60mph winds with a gust to 78 i believe... but it was erie standing in the eye and watching the sun come out.

To think that it the center passed directly over my house, then into the gulf and then did what it did. that baffles my mind.
-Eric

[wxmann_91]

Wxmann, by chance do you have ESP?

No, because I predicted a Cat 5 into S. Carolina, not into the Gulf Coast. Actually many people here predicted Katrina to be a bad cane, it's just that Katrina is a scary name to me (even before it did the damage that it did I thought it was scary).

[StrongWind]

...did anyone think it would be the worst hurricane in memory?

I remember when Katrina was just about to leave florida..and many we're saying a cat 1 into the florida panhandle.

Heck..I remember even watching CNN (on the wednesday before katrina struck on monday)

even when many here..and many others we're saying mobile/biloxi..the CNN newsperson said that katrina *might* regain hurricane strength..before hitting the florida panhandle.

Interesting - in that just a few days before Andrew almost no one was worried about him. Then suddenly he bombed and blew apart South Fla.

I guess it just goes to show we shouldn't be complacent about any storm coming into our area - no matter what the official prediction is.

[inotherwords]

I heard from a lot of my friends down in Miami that they really underestimated Katrina there. "Just" a category 1 storm. Many were without power for a week. People I know who have been through Cat 1 storms before said this one felt different. I sort of had a feeling it was going to be bad, and I knew how hot the waters were in the Gulf.

Most of the pro mets on the board here were predicting quite a bit of intensification with the info to back it up, so it did not surprise me it grew the way it did. The one iffy thing was landfall location, which varied from Houston to the Big Bend until the Friday before.

[SouthernWx]

Wxmann, by chance do you have ESP?

I also had a very bad feeling about Katrina once it exited into the eastern GOM. Ask my aunts Violet and Helen in Morristown, Tennessee (where I was visiting relatives as Katrina struck SE Florida)......I was deeply concerned Katrina would deepen explosively as it approached the northern Gulf Coast. Just as Camille and the 1935 Labor Day hurricane......you could almost see it coming; conditions aloft almost perfect for explosive deepening; sea surface temps extremely warm....and a big-ole warm eddy right in the projected path.

The only real surprise IMO? Katrina became a very large intense hurricane in the GOM. I was thinking it would be smaller and more compact; similar to Andrew or Camille.

[therock1811]

It didn't hit me that this would be bad until Saturday morning after it had hit Southeast Florida. As it was strengthening all I could think was that there were people who weren't going to be ready for this. I didn't even think Cat 4/5. I thought it might make Category 3 at landfall...to see what it did just tore me up inside.

[jkt21787]

Wow, everyone was on target with Katrina!

Well, except for Brent

[LAwxrgal]

I had bad feelings about Katrina starting on that Thursday, which was I believe the 25th. As soon as she started moseying southwest in the Gulf, and a fellow Storm2Ker showed me these forecast models clustered near New Orleans and Mississippi, I got really nervous.

Question: I know officially Katrina formed from TD12, but didn't the much-maligned TD10 play a role in her development?