Thanks for the info, cycloneye. It is VERY much appreciated!!
Official 2005 retired names and 2011 list of names
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Later today the 2005 names that will be retired as well the 2011 list of names will be released so stay tuned here.If I am not here at the time they are released anyone can post them at this thread.
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Nothing yet released.I guess that we will have to wait until tommorow as the meeting ended today.
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Not really official... but...
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N30175861.htm
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, March 30 (Reuters) - Warm ocean temperatures foretell another active Atlantic hurricane season but likely not as busy as the record-breaker that spawned Hurricane Katrina and other devastating storms last year, a top hurricane forecaster said on Thursday.
Officials at a meeting of weather forecasters from the United States, Canada and the Caribbean region also said they were looking at retiring the names of five of last year's worst storms, including Katrina, which became the most expensive natural disaster in U.S. history when it hit New Orleans.
The 2005 season produced a record 27 tropical storms, besting the old mark of 21 in 1933. Fifteen of those storms strengthened into hurricanes.
Hurricane Katrina killed 1,300 people and caused $80 billion in damage after coming ashore on the U.S. Gulf Coast on Aug. 29. Hurricane Stan killed about 2,000 people in Central America last October.
The coming season, which starts officially on June 1, is not likely to be as bad, experts say. One noted forecaster, William Gray of Colorado State University, has predicted this year will produce 17 tropical storms and hurricanes.
Hurricanes draw their energy from warm water and the Atlantic, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico were unusually warm last year.
"The Atlantic Ocean is warm right now but it is not as warm as it was last year," U.S. National Hurricane Center Director Max Mayfield said on the opening day of a regional convention of the World Meteorological Organization in San Juan.
But Mayfield warned residents of hurricane-vulnerable areas not to pay too much attention to seasonal forecasts. One hurricane, such as Andrew in 1992, could be enough to turn a season into a bad one, he said.
"What is more important is that we're in an active period that will last from 10 to 20 more years and that's not good news," Mayfield said.
U.S. National Weather Service director David Johnson said research on the intensity of hurricanes was one area on which the WMO wanted to focus.
"Intensity forecasts have been pretty flat," he said. "We haven't had much improvement at all."
Forecasters were startled by the explosive growth of several of last year's storms. Wilma, for example, grew from a tropical storm with 70-mph (113-kph) winds into a 175-mph (282-kph) monster storm in just 24 hours.
The WMO is looking at retiring the names of Dennis, Katrina, Rita, Stan and Wilma because of the damage and deaths associated with those storms in 2005. More than 60 hurricane names have been retired to date.
"I suspect that at least four or five will be retired, maybe more," Mayfield said. "We will vote on it some time this week."
A supplemental list of names for Atlantic storms is also being discussed to replace the Greek alphabet. Forecasters ran out of names last year and had to resort to a backup list of Greek letters to name the final six storms.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N30175861.htm
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, March 30 (Reuters) - Warm ocean temperatures foretell another active Atlantic hurricane season but likely not as busy as the record-breaker that spawned Hurricane Katrina and other devastating storms last year, a top hurricane forecaster said on Thursday.
Officials at a meeting of weather forecasters from the United States, Canada and the Caribbean region also said they were looking at retiring the names of five of last year's worst storms, including Katrina, which became the most expensive natural disaster in U.S. history when it hit New Orleans.
The 2005 season produced a record 27 tropical storms, besting the old mark of 21 in 1933. Fifteen of those storms strengthened into hurricanes.
Hurricane Katrina killed 1,300 people and caused $80 billion in damage after coming ashore on the U.S. Gulf Coast on Aug. 29. Hurricane Stan killed about 2,000 people in Central America last October.
The coming season, which starts officially on June 1, is not likely to be as bad, experts say. One noted forecaster, William Gray of Colorado State University, has predicted this year will produce 17 tropical storms and hurricanes.
Hurricanes draw their energy from warm water and the Atlantic, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico were unusually warm last year.
"The Atlantic Ocean is warm right now but it is not as warm as it was last year," U.S. National Hurricane Center Director Max Mayfield said on the opening day of a regional convention of the World Meteorological Organization in San Juan.
But Mayfield warned residents of hurricane-vulnerable areas not to pay too much attention to seasonal forecasts. One hurricane, such as Andrew in 1992, could be enough to turn a season into a bad one, he said.
"What is more important is that we're in an active period that will last from 10 to 20 more years and that's not good news," Mayfield said.
U.S. National Weather Service director David Johnson said research on the intensity of hurricanes was one area on which the WMO wanted to focus.
"Intensity forecasts have been pretty flat," he said. "We haven't had much improvement at all."
Forecasters were startled by the explosive growth of several of last year's storms. Wilma, for example, grew from a tropical storm with 70-mph (113-kph) winds into a 175-mph (282-kph) monster storm in just 24 hours.
The WMO is looking at retiring the names of Dennis, Katrina, Rita, Stan and Wilma because of the damage and deaths associated with those storms in 2005. More than 60 hurricane names have been retired to date.
"I suspect that at least four or five will be retired, maybe more," Mayfield said. "We will vote on it some time this week."
A supplemental list of names for Atlantic storms is also being discussed to replace the Greek alphabet. Forecasters ran out of names last year and had to resort to a backup list of Greek letters to name the final six storms.
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senorpepr wrote:HURAKAN wrote:I don't know what is the problem with the Greek alphabet, I like it!!!
I agree... there isn't a problem with the Greek alphabet, in my opinion. What does perk my interest is there was no mention of retiring Emily.
I agree, we used the Greek alphabet once and they are going nuts. It seems Emily will see the light once again in 2011.
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HURAKAN wrote:senorpepr wrote:HURAKAN wrote:I don't know what is the problem with the Greek alphabet, I like it!!!
I agree... there isn't a problem with the Greek alphabet, in my opinion. What does perk my interest is there was no mention of retiring Emily.
I agree, we used the Greek alphabet once and they are going nuts. It seems Emily will see the light once again in 2011.
Watch her try again in even more full force than ever in that case! Her past history indicates it anyway:
1987: C3 into Hispaniola that luckily only caused minor damage, 3 dead.
1993: C3 that grazes NC but miraculously doesn't make landfall. 3 dead, $30 million in 1993 dollars.
2005: C5 in July in the Caribbean, destructive to Mexico and the Windward Islands, several fatalities.
What could she possibly be like in 2011 if she isn't retired now?!
-Andrew92
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Andrew92 wrote:HURAKAN wrote:senorpepr wrote:HURAKAN wrote:I don't know what is the problem with the Greek alphabet, I like it!!!
I agree... there isn't a problem with the Greek alphabet, in my opinion. What does perk my interest is there was no mention of retiring Emily.
I agree, we used the Greek alphabet once and they are going nuts. It seems Emily will see the light once again in 2011.
Watch her try again in even more full force than ever in that case! Her past history indicates it anyway:
1987: C3 into Hispaniola that luckily only caused minor damage, 3 dead.
1993: C3 that grazes NC but miraculously doesn't make landfall. 3 dead, $30 million in 1993 dollars.
2005: C5 in July in the Caribbean, destructive to Mexico and the Windward Islands, several fatalities.
What could she possibly be like in 2011 if she isn't retired now?!
-Andrew92
She is the most destructive non-retired storm in the Atlantic Ocean!!!
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