NATL: HUMBERTO - Remnants - Discussion

[zhukm29]

Never seen a cone quite like this one:

[Sciencerocks]

[ryxn314]

Fun fact! Currently, Hurricane Humberto is the ONLY Atlantic Category 5 hurricane (out of 44) to not have a Wikipedia article.

If you count Pacific Category 5 hurricanes (4 out of 21 having no Wiki page), then Humberto joins Patsy (1959), Elida (2002), Hernan (2002), and Kristy (2024) as the only 5 (out of 65) Category 5 hurricanes without pages.

[ryxn314]

Looks like Humberto got eaten by Imelda after their dance! That's some praying mantis behavior right there

[MEANINGLESS_NUMBERS]

Fun fact! Currently, Hurricane Humberto is the ONLY Atlantic Category 5 hurricane (out of 44) to not have a Wikipedia article.

If you count Pacific Category 5 hurricanes (4 out of 21 having no Wiki page), than Humberto joins Patsy (1959), Elida (2002), Hernan (2002), and Kristy (2024) as the only 5 (out of 65) Category 5 hurricanes without pages.

There is a draft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Hur ... erto_(2025)

Unclear whether the storms meets notability criteria though! Looked cool but didn't do anything.

[cycloneye]

Bye. He did a good show.

[ryxn314]

He saved the Carolinas, then got ate!

Truly a legend, a gentle giant who minded his own business and then got slapped by Imelda.

Don't worry Humberto, no one compares to you, King.

[Teban54]

Not often do you see strong CV hurricanes becoming remnants in the middle of the Atlantic (as opposed to transitioning to post-tropical at higher latitudes), much less a Cat 5.

[zhukm29]

He saved the Carolinas, then got ate!

Truly a legend, a gentle giant who minded his own business and then got slapped by Imelda.

Don't worry Humberto, no one compares to you, King.

If we didn't have IMELDA in the Bahamas with its immense outflow now, we possibly would be facing an even stronger Hurricane Humberto in the coming days. What a shame
https://i.imgur.com/74MpydH.jpeg

Imelda first stealing Humberto’s recon, and now stealing Humberto’s second peak - spoiled sibling energy

Next she will steal Humberto's Tropical Storm Watch

A Tropical Storm Watch means that tropical storm conditions are
possible within the watch area, generally within 48 hours. This
Tropical Storm Watch may be replaced with a Hurricane Watch later
today due to Imelda.

Guess she ended up stealing Humberto's entire life force as well after pushing him into the frontal boundary lol

Pretty neat storm, looking forward to what they do during post-season reanalysis. Quite a blessing to get a true Cat 5 fish storm that didn't severely impact anyone at all (even Erin's precursor impacted the Cape Verde islands), and possibly one of the strongest NATL storms in recent history (but we'll never know without recon).

[CrazyC83]

As far as Humberto's BT, here's how I would have it (unofficial):

AL082025, HUMBERTO, xx,
20250924, 0000, , LO, 17.2N, 50.2W, 25, 1008,
20250924, 0600, , LO, 18.1N, 51.8W, 30, 1007,
20250924, 1200, , TD, 18.9N, 53.3W, 30, 1006,
20250924, 1800, , TS, 19.0N, 54.5W, 35, 1004,
20250925, 0000, , TS, 19.8N, 55.4W, 45, 1002,
20250925, 0600, , TS, 20.4N, 56.1W, 45, 1001,
20250925, 1200, , TS, 21.0N, 56.5W, 50, 998,
20250925, 1800, , TS, 21.3N, 56.8W, 55, 995,
20250926, 0000, , TS, 21.7N, 56.9W, 60, 991,
20250926, 0600, , HU, 21.9N, 57.1W, 70, 983,
20250926, 1200, , HU, 22.2N, 57.4W, 85, 972,
20250926, 1800, , HU, 22.3N, 57.8W, 105, 953,
20250927, 0000, , HU, 22.3N, 58.4W, 120, 941,
20250927, 0600, , HU, 22.2N, 59.0W, 125, 937,
20250927, 1200, , HU, 22.5N, 59.7W, 125, 935,
20250927, 1800, , HU, 22.7N, 60.7W, 135, 926,
20250927, 2100, I, HU, 22.9N, 61.2W, 145, 918,
20250928, 0000, , HU, 23.1N, 61.6W, 140, 920,
20250928, 0600, , HU, 23.7N, 62.8W, 130, 926,
20250928, 1200, , HU, 24.3N, 63.8W, 120, 931,
20250928, 1800, , HU, 25.1N, 64.8W, 120, 929,
20250929, 0000, , HU, 25.8N, 65.8W, 120, 928,
20250929, 0600, , HU, 26.7N, 66.6W, 115, 934,
20250929, 1200, , HU, 27.5N, 67.3W, 115, 938,
20250929, 1800, , HU, 28.5N, 67.9W, 105, 948,
20250930, 0000, , HU, 29.6N, 68.6W, 90, 961,
20250930, 0600, , HU, 31.0N, 69.3W, 75, 972,
20250930, 1200, , HU, 32.4N, 69.8W, 70, 977,
20250930, 1800, , HU, 33.5N, 69.8W, 65, 979,
20251001, 0000, , HU, 34.6N, 69.0W, 65, 980,
20251001, 0600, , TS, 35.8N, 67.2W, 60, 982,
20251001, 1200, , EX, 36.7N, 64.1W, 55, 983,

* Genesis is moved up slightly. As is typical, the early life is smoothed out.
* The rapid intensification is adjusted slightly. My estimate is the peak intensity was at a non-synoptic time and a bit earlier, when it appeared that Humberto had the best presentation and was likely around T7.2. That supports an intensity of 145 kt. The pressure estimate of 918 mb was at that same time too, a blend of standard Dvorak and trends from later Recon.
* After peak intensity, most of the intensities are brought down a bit. They were generally a bit generous, and by the 29th, it is possible the 90% rule was not applicable as shear was increasing. That was despite a fairly low pressure - 928 mb when Recon first went in.
* Decay is moved up 6 hours with a brief extratropical period before the nearby trough and extratropical low overtook what was left of Humberto.

[Category5Kaiju]

Humberto has also made history, in a sense: it's the first Atlantic Category 5 that didn't get a Wikipedia page. I mean, sure, we've had storms like Carol (1953), Esther (1961), Lorenzo, Lee, and Erin, but those storms, as a weak tropical storm or post-tropical cyclone in the first 4 cases and as a precursor in the case of Erin, did affect land to some degree and had impacts noteworthy enough that they deserved Wikipedia pages. Not Humberto. Arguably the Atlantic's first recorded Category 5 that also ended up as a "true" fish storm.

Edit: ah, I see, this was already mentioned several posts up

[cycloneye]

Does anyone think the TCR post season report will have changes to have more time as a cat 5 when recon was not there?

[MEANINGLESS_NUMBERS]

Never seen a cone quite like this one:

https://i.imgur.com/2sEBEo3.png

"I was in the pool!"

[Hurricane2022]

Does anyone think the TCR post season report will have changes to have more time as a cat 5 when recon was not there?

I think they're going to do something similar to what Kevin analyzed in the "Discussion of Intense Tropical Cyclones" thread, and I'll also admit that I would be a bit surprised if they're going to do a bigger update than that, given that they have missed other opportunities to make "corrections" to other strong hurricanes BT (e.g. Jova '23). But anyway, I'm very interested to see what they'll conclude about this in the TCR. I think that CrazyC83's analysis is the most reasonable one yet.

[MadaTheConquistador]

I know it's been brought up before, but I think it's crazy how this is only the second time that we've had two C5s two years in a row. However, the it looks like Mother Nature has made the C5s this year seem to be much kinder than the ones last year (I don't want to jinx it though), especially Humberto. He saved the U.S. from another potentially destructive "I" named storm and the first C5 to be completely OTS as someone else mentioned. I think he deserves some kind of award.