Radar images of long scary night with katrina.

[CHRISTY]

Radar images of scary night for me and my family in miami.

[Recurve]

Man, those were some unexpectedly high windspeeds. It was the first time I heard a real roar from a TS/minimal hurricane.

Christy, it was a scary night. I was pretty shocked to be looking at radar late that night and see the eye had drifted almost down to the 18-mile stretch just northwest of me.

But of course, we had nothing, nothing, nothing compared to LA/MS.

[JtSmarts]

Great images, thanks for posting.

[Brent]

Yep... that southwesterly jog it took right into the heart of Miami was about the strangest thing I have ever seen. Caught a lot of people off-guard and kept it over the swamp instead of real land(stronger when it re-emerged).

[Tampa Bay Hurricane]

That hurricane looks like it had a burst of convection while
over land over the Everglades.

[Rainband]

That hurricane looks like it had a burst of convection while
over land over the Everglades.

Thats not technically "land" so that makes sense.

[Dr. Jonah Rainwater]

I think one of the biggest missed lessons of the 2005 season will probably be that of the power of a Category One hurricane striking land. I doubt anybody outside South Florida will remember it, but I saw some pretty awful damage pictures from Katrina's landfall there. $2 billion, easy. From a fairly routine Category One hurricane making landfall in Fort Lauderdale. Ophelia's Category One damage has not only been described as being worse that Alex, but also worse than Isabel, Floyd, even Hazel, in some parts of the Outer Banks. And then Stan was just horrendous. In this season of monsters like Dennis, Emily, Katrina, and Rita, I guess it's easy to underestimate the power of a Cat1. But I'd doubt anyone who's lived through the full force of a Category One hurricane would tell you the same.

[Vandora]

Still makes me shiver. That was, indeed, one long night. We weren't expecting (though still in the cone, of course, it was possible) the eyewall over us, but it was, and stayed for awhile. She wasn't a picnic at a Cat. 1, just the look of my complex the next morning was overwhelming. So many of us were wandering around in a daze, trying to figure it all out, looking at all the trees and debris on the ground, smashed on top of cars, crashed through the iron gate surrounding the complex, the sidewalk torn up in one place, some flooding. I am guilty of the phrase, "Just a Cat. 1." before her. Never again will I say that. I knew when she was done with us that wherever she was headed next was in for a hard ride.

[weatherwoman]

great post, what a beautiful site, not saying it in a way that is good but just natures way of showing her beauty

[brunota2003]

i hate to say it, but IMO, La got lucky, if not for the south western jog, which caused it to peak sooner, causing it to weaken sooner, otherwise we could of been looking at a Cat 5 hitting them, just an obs i made...