The Wave SW of Cape Verde Islands
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wow, does look like this might be the one to at least develop into something, who knows what, but at this point, I'll settle on tracking just a tropical storm
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I'd love to be able to track a system from a wave all the way up to a cat5 as it turns north out to sea, not bothering any landmass(islands included). I just enjoy watching them come together. It's so awesome! Hopefully there will be a couple of those this season.

I'd love to be able to track a system from a wave all the way up to a cat5 as it turns north out to sea, not bothering any landmass(islands included). I just enjoy watching them come together. It's so awesome! Hopefully there will be a couple of those this season.
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ConvergenceZone wrote:wow, does look like this might be the one to at least develop into something, who knows what, but at this point, I'll settle on tracking just a tropical storm.
I'd love to be able to track a system from a wave all the way up to a cat5 as it turns north out to sea, not bothering any landmass(islands included). I just enjoy watching them come together. It's so awesome! Hopefully there will be a couple of those this season.
I completely agree. I remember doing this for Hurricane Katrina, Rita, and boy oh boy Hurricane Wilma!
It was so amazing but scary at the same time.
Hurricane Wilma was the most amazing storm I have ever followed! It just broke record after record and proved everything to believe wrong.
i can't imagine a hurricane beating Huricane Wilma but if it happens I am going to be very scared.
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remember KAT Rita and Wilma exploded to very strong CAT 5 status while you were in bed and we were talking about biblical wind speeds and jaw dropping pressure
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f5 wrote:remember KAT Rita and Wilma exploded to very strong CAT 5 status while you were in bed and we were talking about biblical wind speeds and jaw dropping pressure
Ahhh, as a teenager, I was one of the few awake for the 2 a.m. Wilma advisory when everything - for lack of a better word - exploded. Good ol' weather channel. That dude was flippin' out.


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Swimdude wrote:Good ol' weather channel. That dude was flippin' out.![]()
You should have seen the look on this one "The Weather Network" women's face as she was saying this:
"Hurricane Wilma became a category 5 in just 7 hours". She had a very worried look on her face and she closed her eyes when she said the "7 hours" part.

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Yep, this new wave off Africa definitely looks "nice" if you like that sort of thing.
I agree, I think if it holds together overnight, this might become an invest as soon as tomorrow.

I agree, I think if it holds together overnight, this might become an invest as soon as tomorrow.
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Swimdude wrote:f5 wrote:remember KAT Rita and Wilma exploded to very strong CAT 5 status while you were in bed and we were talking about biblical wind speeds and jaw dropping pressure
Ahhh, as a teenager, I was one of the few awake for the 2 a.m. Wilma advisory when everything - for lack of a better word - exploded. Good ol' weather channel. That dude was flippin' out.![]()
I too was up for that amazing 2 am Wilma advisory....it was like the bottom had fallen out, literally. And that eye was soooo tiny, like 2 miles wide.... all those "biblical" windspeeds were in this super tiny area....so tiny the aircraft couldn't really measure it.... for all we know her winds might have been higher...
Those were the days... have a lot more going on in my life now

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Cyclenall wrote:Swimdude wrote:Good ol' weather channel. That dude was flippin' out.![]()
You should have seen the look on this one "The Weather Network" women's face as she was saying this:
"Hurricane Wilma became a category 5 in just 7 hours". She had a very worried look on her face and she closed her eyes when she said the "7 hours" part.
Does anyone have that recorded?

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I was surprised it wasn't mentioned in tonight's TWO. The NHC invested 99 when (IMHO) it had only a small shance of development with all the dry air it had to go through. This has much less dry air and better environmental conditions to sustain it.
Do you think that the NHC are waiting to get a better fix on this since 99 fizzled out? Or is there something there that the NHC is seeing to prevent development that I'm not?
Just curious
Do you think that the NHC are waiting to get a better fix on this since 99 fizzled out? Or is there something there that the NHC is seeing to prevent development that I'm not?
Just curious
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I was also wake for Hurricane Wilma's super-intesification. I was so bewildered...I was speechless. On Wikipedia I had predicted, before the season, that Rita would be the strongest (there's an extremely well-developed hurricane community there, and some of us made predictions on the season) and I was sure I had it in the bag when Rita ended up being stronger than Katrina. But then Wilma came and just completely blew it out of the water. I was amazed...Wilma was just insane during that period.
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