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cycloneye wrote:Welcome aboard to storm2k and enjoy it all with the many forums we have here.Any questions that you may have please ask and rapidly we will have an answer for you.
I have quite a lot of topic ideas that I want to post like that doomsday scenario topic that got locked at 10 pages. That was great!
A big HOWDY from Texas Things are going to get wild here pretty soon.Strap yourself in and put on the crash helmet for cane season 2006
You got that right, what a ride it was last year!!
Welcome to S2K! You're going to learn an awful lot more about hurricanes, etc. on this site. There are some VERY talented amateurs and pro mets on this board.
Well there isn't really a whole lot more information that I can learn but there is some though. I will ask these questions then:
1. What causes the ITCZ to exist?
2. Is a Tropical Cyclone's eye size a indicator of strength? I can't figure it out since Cyclone Monica's eye was large and Hurricane Wilma's was very tiny. Both were around sub-890 mb.
3. What does LLC stand for?
Those are just some questions to start off with. Oh and thanks everyone for the welcomes, I've never seen new members get that many welcomes!!
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Welcome to storm2k. You'll have a lot of fun here and it is an addiction. Once you start you won't stop. And I belive LLC is for Low Level Circulation. But Im not 100% positive. Size of the eye i dont belive you could obtain strenght only from that. Eevry system is different. The other ? I have no clue 
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Stratusxpeye wrote:Welcome to storm2k. You'll have a lot of fun here and it is an addiction. Once you start you won't stop. And I belive LLC is for Low Level Circulation. But Im not 100% positive. Size of the eye i dont belive you could obtain strenght only from that. Eevry system is different. The other ? I have no clue
Oh that's what I thought "LLC" meant. Thanks. About the size of the eye's I heard different things so I do think eye size has to do with strength in some way (like charley).
Welcome my fellow Canuk LOL. Ontario, that is Hurricane Hazel country for those of us interested in tropical weather here in Canada. Hope you enjoy yourself on these forums as much as I have
Yep. Hurricane Juan for Canada was one of the biggest. Category 2 making landfall in NFL is cool, doesn't happen often at all.
I have another question I just asked on the other topic, can tropical depressions rapidly strengthen? Like to a hurricane?
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Oh that's what I thought "LLC" meant. Thanks. About the size of the eye's I heard different things so I do think eye size has to do with strength in some way (like charley).
The size of the eye doesn't necessarily have a direct correlation to intensity/strength. Yes, Wilma wrapped herself up in what was an incredibly tightly wound storm with that "pinhole" eye, that was amazing. But remember that other storms that had rather large eyes were also quite intense. Betsy was a 4, with a huge eye (depending on your source from 40-60 miles across)... Katrina's was around 50 miles at peak intensity Cat 5. Some with smaller eyes didn't get beyond Cat 1... there are myriad factors that result in a storm wrapping itself into a small CoC, and while its intensity CAN be one of them, it isn't necessarily the deciding factor.
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Actually Cyclenall Juan 2003 made landfall in central Nova Scotia as a cat 2, though that was at McNabe's (Spelling?) island, it was down to a borderline cat 1 when it reached Halifax. Juan was a very small and compact storm, which effects were only felt in central Nova Scotia, and to a lesser degree in PEI.
BTW Michael it 2000 was a cat 2 that was rapidly becoming extratropical when it hit Newfoundland, so that may have been the system you were thinking of.
BTW Michael it 2000 was a cat 2 that was rapidly becoming extratropical when it hit Newfoundland, so that may have been the system you were thinking of.
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Audrey2Katrina wrote:Oh that's what I thought "LLC" meant. Thanks. About the size of the eye's I heard different things so I do think eye size has to do with strength in some way (like charley).
The size of the eye doesn't necessarily have a direct correlation to intensity/strength. Yes, Wilma wrapped herself up in what was an incredibly tightly wound storm with that "pinhole" eye, that was amazing. But remember that other storms that had rather large eyes were also quite intense. Betsy was a 4, with a huge eye (depending on your source from 40-60 miles across)... Katrina's was around 50 miles at peak intensity Cat 5. Some with smaller eyes didn't get beyond Cat 1... there are myriad factors that result in a storm wrapping itself into a small CoC, and while its intensity CAN be one of them, it isn't necessarily the deciding factor.
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Yeah, everything you said here is what i'm thinking.
Yes a tropical depression can rapidly strengthen into a cat 1, or more if conditions are right.
I have never seen it happen before. The reason is because when it did happen one year or another I wasn't watching Hurricanes. I have dreams of tropical depressions becoming category 5 hurricanes, no joke!
Actually Cyclenall Juan 2003 made landfall in central Nova Scotia as a cat 2, though that was at McNabe's (Spelling?) island, it was down to a borderline cat 1 when it reached Halifax.
Somehow I knew I got the place wrong. I thought Nova Scotia but didn't think that's where it hit. I get them mixed up.BTW Michael it 2000 was a cat 2 that was rapidly becoming extratropical when it hit Newfoundland, so that may have been the system you were thinking of.
I was not thinking of that at all. It's just that I got the place wrong.
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