Ptarmigan wrote:Ad Novoxium wrote:Among other things:
-Only Category 5 of the ENTIRE YEAR in the North Hemisphere. Yes, even including the West Pacific.
-Strongest storm of the whole year in terms of windspeed in NHem (STY Babe was strongest in mbar). It's incredible to imagine an Atlantic storm having higher wind speeds than a typhoon.
-Reached the Pacific as a tropical depression (reclassified as T.D. 11)
-Was 90 mph and 54 mbar stronger than the second most intense Atlantic hurricane that year (Dorothy at 85 mph and 980 mbar to 175 mph and 926 mbar).
-(I think) the lowest ACE for a Category 5 Atlantic hurricane (12.8).
-One of only three Atlantic Category 5 hurricanes with an A name, and the only female name to have done so. (the others were Allen and Andrew).
-The last retirement of a name prior to the new male/female name lists.
1977 was an inactive year. I never knew why and I have tried looking for information about it. All I know that we had a very weak El Nino that time and monsoonal pattern may have been further south that time. I know the Philippines was dry in 1977.
but you know, all the basin's in 1977 were quite inactive for an unknown reason... even the WPac