Don't Look Now But Here Comes Juan

[abajan]

Have a look at the West African coast in this pic:

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT/EATL/IR4/20.jpg

[caribepr]

Looks all too low for my liking...hope it isn't Juan (thinking of all the really nice, gentle Juan's I know...nah, can't be Juan)

[AussieMark]

Does anyone know what Juan of 1985 wasn't retired.

<B>$1.5 Billion in damages in 1985 dollars</B> Well over 2 Billion if it strikes today. Ring a bell.

[Aquawind]

That does look impressive as it leaves the coast. Give it another 24 hours over water and if it's still alive we may have Juan eventually. Nice to see you posting here abajan.

[mitchell]

Does anyone know what Juan of 1985 wasn't retired.

<B>$1.5 Billion in damages in 1985 dollars</B> Well over 2 Billion if it strikes today. Ring a bell.

I've wondered about this myself. I guess because most of the damage and misery happened in the appalachians after it was no longer a TD and was extratropical. Nobody who had ten feet of water in their house in West Virginia was calling it Juan!

[AussieMark]

I would think that but then i thought they retired Agnes who did most of the damage away from the coast of Florida where landfall was initially made.

[BayouVenteux]

Does anyone know what Juan of 1985 wasn't retired.

'85 Juan was one of those weird cold core turned warm core hybrid storms that formed in the Gulf. They seldom get the respect from the NHC they deserve. Wasn't a dramatic system (tell that to the people who were on the overturned boats and the capsized oil rig!), never going above a minimal category 1, but it hung around long enough, meandering and stalling, meandering some more, to cause big time flooding headaches all over SE Louisiana. Probably under the current NHC regime it would have been retired, ala TS Allison a couple of seasons ago, but IMO the criteria were perhaps a bit more demanding in terms of severity back then.

That being said, that particular Juan will not be forgotten in this neck of the woods any time soon!

[HurricaneQueen]

Looking at all the long range models, I've been expecting Juan to pop into the picture anytime. Welcome, Juan and please be our friend!

Gonna be a long week for all of us. I might even try getting some sleep tonight unless anything out of the ordinary accurs. Have a good Friday, everyone!

Lynn

[JCT777]

Juan, or my namesake in espanol, better not be one of those storms that barely makes TS status before dying - where many people feel that it shouldn't even have been named. I don't want him giving me a bad name, ya know!