2006 a bust???

gilbert88 · #81 Postby **gilbert88** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 12:51 pm

The key is... 2006 is a bust compared to what? I just can't take "season cancel" posts seriously after last year's pre-Katrina posts.

Hope it stays that way, but I wouldn't be so optimistic.

Trugunzn · #82 Postby **Trugunzn** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 12:52 pm

gilbert88 wrote:The key is... 2006 is a bust compared to what? I just can't take "season cancel" posts seriously after last year's pre-Katrina posts.

very much agree

https://www.youtube.com/user/senorpepr · #83 Postby **senorpepr** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 1:30 pm

Grease Monkey wrote:Seems like the title of this thread is getting closer and closer to coming true as the season progresses. It's almost that time of year where it's either now or never unless the storms this season plan on coming in big spirts. Lets continue this discussion on this thread because it seems like the official "2006 season is a bust" (created by senorpepr makes it official) thread.

Here is my take on it currently:

We are at normal in terms of named storms. We are slightly behind normal for hurricanes.

We are 46% through the climatological season.

Since football is starting, I'll make a football analogy.

Say that this season is your favorite football team.
Also, say that shear, ULL, SAL, etc. are your favorite football team's rival.

You're at the 2-minute warning at the end of the 1st half. Your team is down by a touchdown and (with the heart of the season just beginning) your team has possession of the football. Do you give up and turn the channel or leave the stadium?

Jim Cantore · #84 Postby **Jim Cantore** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 2:14 pm

Guys, Instead of calling the season a bust, go track John or Ioke, the atlantic isn't the only basin you know.

Grease Monkey · #85 Postby **Grease Monkey** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 2:19 pm

Hurricane Floyd wrote:Guys, Instead of calling the season a bust, go track John or Ioke, the atlantic isn't the only basin you know.

Yeah but it's been discussed before. It's just human nature for it to be more interesting when it's closer to your home.

Jim Cantore · #86 Postby **Jim Cantore** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 2:29 pm

Hey, It's still something to do I always say.

And yes, it is more intresting close to home.

DanKellFla · #87 Postby **DanKellFla** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 2:31 pm

Grease Monkey wrote:
Hurricane Floyd wrote:Guys, Instead of calling the season a bust, go track John or Ioke, the atlantic isn't the only basin you know.

Yeah but it's been discussed before. It's just human nature for it to be more interesting when it's closer to your home.

Well then, that is settled. The Pacific no longer exists. Personally, the last time Florida got hit by a Pacific hurricane, it was awful.

kenl01 · #88 Postby **kenl01** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 2:47 pm

How about another hobby guys ? If the weather is boring, you could argue which team wins the next football game on a sports chatforum. Or you guys could argue about musicians on the Sinatra forum on franksinatra.com or something.

Don't worry about the weather - it'll never go away in your lifetime. :wink:

Jim Hughes · #89 Postby **Jim Hughes** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 3:21 pm

senorpepr wrote:
Grease Monkey wrote:Seems like the title of this thread is getting closer and closer to coming true as the season progresses. It's almost that time of year where it's either now or never unless the storms this season plan on coming in big spirts. Lets continue this discussion on this thread because it seems like the official "2006 season is a bust" (created by senorpepr makes it official) thread.

Here is my take on it currently:

We are at normal in terms of named storms. We are slightly behind normal for hurricanes.

We are 46% through the climatological season.

Since football is starting, I'll make a football analogy.

Say that this season is your favorite football team.
Also, say that shear, ULL, SAL, etc. are your favorite football team's rival.

You're at the 2-minute warning at the end of the 1st half. Your team is down by a touchdown and (with the heart of the season just beginning) your team has possession of the football. Do you give up and turn the channel or leave the stadium?

Good analogy Mike from a human perspective. Your right nobody would ever quit or leave the stadium but no football coach wants to fall behind a better football team. Especially one with a good defense.... El Nino

#90 Postby **SouthFloridawx** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 5:53 pm

all_we_know_is_FALLING · #91 Postby **all_we_know_is_FALLING** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 6:51 pm

We've had 3 landfalling Tropical Storms already. That's not exactly a bust, IMO.

HurricaneHunter914 · #92 Postby **HurricaneHunter914** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 7:10 pm

Season bust cancel. With three Invests in the Atlantic already I think the Bust has been broken.

Extremeweatherguy · #93 Postby **Extremeweatherguy** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 7:33 pm

all_we_know_is_FALLING wrote:We've had 3 landfalling Tropical Storms already. That's not exactly a bust, IMO.

I agree. 3 out of 5 total storms making landfall is in no way a bust.

Jim Cantore · #94 Postby **Jim Cantore** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 8:05 pm

And remember, one storm can make a season, example, 1992.

#95 Postby **Downdraft** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 8:11 pm

Maybe people ought to define what a bust is? For me a bust is one landfalling hurricane and what it brings. A great season is one where we have days and days of big powerful storms drifting through the Atlantic. Fun to watch, fun to track and fun to watch drift harmlessly away. A perfect year is when nature does it job taking the heat from the tropical Atlantic and dumping it into the cooler north Atlantic. Never ceases to amaze me how disappointed the posts become when we have a "fish" storm.

Jim Cantore · #96 Postby **Jim Cantore** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 8:13 pm

Downdraft wrote:Maybe people ought to define what a bust is? For me a bust is one landfalling hurricane and what it brings. A great season is one where we have days and days of big powerful storms drifting through the Atlantic. Fun to watch, fun to track and fun to watch drift harmlessly away. A perfect year is when nature does it job taking the heat from the tropical Atlantic and dumping it into the cooler north Atlantic. Never ceases to amaze me how disappointed the posts become when we have a "fish" storm.

Seems to me at this point, if a major Hurricane doesn't hit a major city every week the season is a bust, I hate to say it but it seems that way.

all_we_know_is_FALLING · #97 Postby **all_we_know_is_FALLING** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 8:27 pm

I don't get how people don't realise that this isn't 2005!!! That season was unprecedented. It may not happen again in our lifetimes, it very easily could not.

If people think the Tropics are so boring this season then go do something else for a while.

roadie · #98 Postby **roadie** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 8:39 pm

A bust? A disappointment? I hardly think so. I just returned 4 days ago from another trip to the Lower Ninth Ward, and Gentilly, and Lakeside, and other areas in New Orleans...I was instantly reminded of the total, and I mean TOTAL devastation, that a hurricane can, and did, unload on an area.

So, am I describing this year as a "bust"? No, not hardly. Am I thankful, yes.

While I appreciate the power of nature, and strive to learn more about the nature of these storms, I am in no way disappointed about this season.

StrongWind · #99 Postby **StrongWind** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 9:25 pm

Hurricane Floyd wrote:Seems to me at this point, if a major Hurricane doesn't hit a major city every week the season is a bust, I hate to say it but it seems that way.

Nah. Every two, or even three, weeks would be fine.

HurricaneBill · #100 Postby **HurricaneBill** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 10:01 pm

Downdraft wrote:Maybe people ought to define what a bust is?

This is a bust.

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