2005 Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Reports Discussion Thread

[MiamiensisWx]

Actually, they didn't exactly. Katrina was annular, while Rita was not.

[f5]

what i was saying was Katrina and Rita reached maximum intensity over the same spot with simliar pressure.they also disrupted oil for a time they also were a threat to major cities katrina almost wiped NO off the map then comes Houston with Rita a little jog to the west would of flatten galveston also downtown houston would of had feet of glass on the streets sidewalk

[ROCK]

Actually, they didn't exactly. Katrina was annular, while Rita was not.

Rita never made her annular appearance?? Seriously, she looked annular at her peak which didn't last that long. Kat sustained her strength somewhat better....

[Dr. Jonah Rainwater]

So, any speculation as to why Franklin and Harvey haven't been released yet? It's extremely unlikely either of them will be upgraded...so why are these two waiting so long?

[Derek Ortt]

feet of glass in Houston?

Rita likely was a 2 at landfall, and would have been a marginal cane in Houston. Conditions would have been similar to Miami in Wilma, a lot of damage, but the city would have survived, probably better off than it did after Allison

[HurricaneHunter914]

Rita I have to agree about 2 at landfall her appearance didn't look well at that time. was she annular? I didn't notice.

[skysummit]

This was her at 165mph. I have a few when she was 175mph, but I thought she looked better at this stage. Pretty darn impressive...

[skysummit]

Here's another at 165mph.

[skysummit]

And here's what was left of Cameron Parish, Louisiana near the Holly Beach/Johnsons Bayou area. That used to be a highway along the coast with homes and streets along it.

[Weatherfreak000]

Wow that's amazing damage. I've never seen it to that extent. Although I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

[HURAKAN]

Some interesting Category 5 facts from last year:

Wilma and Emily are the only 2 catgeory 5 hurricanes to have reach such category in the Caribbean Sea during the same season.

All category 5 hurricanes have female names. It's like beauty is compared to Venus, and the reallity is that Venus is more like hell than anything else imaginable.

Katrina and Rita are the only 2 catgeory 5 hurricanes to have reach such category in the Gulf of Mexico during the same season.

Emily, Katrina, Rita, Wilma and Ivan from 2004, make the pair of years 2004 - 2005, the most active with 5 category 5 hurricanes. The record before was 4 between 1960 - 1961 (Donna, Ethel, Carla, and Hattie).

[AussieMark]

2005 also equalled the record set in 1999 of 5 hurricanes reaching at least category 4. the bizare thing is this was the exact same nameset


in 1999 it was: Bret, Cindy, Floyd, Gert, Lenny

in 2005 it was: Dennis, Emily, Katrina, Rita and Wilma

[f5]

Rita just couldn't shed that rainband over the east coast of flordia

[CrazyC83]

Bret, Cindy, Floyd, Gert, Lenny

Yet among those five letters (including the replacement names), only one was even a hurricane in the 2005 season - and barely.

[wxman57]

Actually, they didn't exactly. Katrina was annular, while Rita was not.

I don't think that Rita or Katrina was annular. Both had spiral bands streaming into the center, as quite evident of this shot of Katrina near her strongest.

http://goes.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/goes/050828.katrina.gif

You can read about annular hurricanes here:
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~kossin/articl ... arhurr.pdf

[ROCK]

I don't know. They both seem to real close to annular. Both had well defined CODs though the Rita pic above it looks like her outflow from the west was somewhat restricted. Nice looking canes in my book....

[HurricaneHunter914]

All the majors were beautiful to me with Comet Maria and Pin hole eye Wilma they capture a picture in my mind every time I think about it.

[wxmann_91]

Actually, they didn't exactly. Katrina was annular, while Rita was not.

I don't think that Rita or Katrina was annular. Both had spiral bands streaming into the center, as quite evident of this shot of Katrina near her strongest.

http://goes.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/goes/050828.katrina.gif

You can read about annular hurricanes here:
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~kossin/articl ... arhurr.pdf

I agree that Rita was not annular, however, Katrina could've briefly become annular or at least come very close to it during the early morning hours.

[Hurricanehink]

Sweet, Rita report is out. Pressure is down to 895, and winds are up to 155 knots. Landfall was still a Cat. 3.

[cycloneye]

32 pages has the Rita report so go ahead and discuss about it at this thread.