2005 Will be like no other season before IMHO.

[Tampa Bay Hurricane]

Great now there's 3 people wishing me dead

[Patrick99]

Tampa will get its storm eventually. But what about S. FL? South Florida had better get used to these hurricane hits. I am very confident that there will be more Wilmas in the coming years, along with some low-belly Cape Verdes and close-in storms like Katrina and the 1935 Labor Day storm.

S. FL had a statistically improbable free ride in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. These last couple years are just adjustments back to the average.

One of these days, reality is going to hit Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, and West Palm, and expose the folly of all the high-rise building on the coast, and all this other development and wetlands destruction. Katrina 1.0 and even Wilma were just starters. If Wilma hadn't parked herself over the Yucatan for a day, I honestly feel it would have been a strong Cat. 4 Wilma strafing the entirety of S. FL.

[wxcrazytwo]

That would not be good if Wilma did that. Fortunately, it stalled somewhat and did not have enough time to get itself going.

[gatorcane]

Tampa will get its storm eventually. But what about S. FL? South Florida had better get used to these hurricane hits. I am very confident that there will be more Wilmas in the coming years, along with some low-belly Cape Verdes and close-in storms like Katrina and the 1935 Labor Day storm.

S. FL had a statistically improbable free ride in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. These last couple years are just adjustments back to the average.

One of these days, reality is going to hit Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, and West Palm, and expose the folly of all the high-rise building on the coast, and all this other development and wetlands destruction. Katrina 1.0 and even Wilma were just starters. If Wilma hadn't parked herself over the Yucatan for a day, I honestly feel it would have been a strong Cat. 4 Wilma strafing the entirety of S. FL.

I agree with you...the avg S. Floridian does not understand that now that we are out of the lull for the past 40 years, hurricanes will happen regularly here....

I'm afraid soon metro S. Florida will be pummelled by a cat 3+

[Steve]

Popping back in to tip my had on this thread. No way I saw homelessness coming or my pending move into a trailer in my front yard later this week. It seemed as though the Gulf doesn't have unlimited potential problems afterall - possibly a side-effect from the busy early season and normal summer warming patterns. Good job wxc2.

Steve

[wxcrazytwo]

If Delta forms, then this will be the season like no other. All other season most likely will not measure up as far as the number of storms, but I fear that we will a much lower number in the future, but with more devastation.

[krysof]

Next year may be an EC threat, so also watch out NYC and Miami too.

[Forecaster Colby]

Yeah, I'm seeing 2006 starting on January 1st with the way this season is going...and that is a scary forecast.