Since 2003 is over...

[Anonymous]

Since the fun and danger of Hurricane Season 2003 is over, it is time to pick what the storm of the year was. I'm sure it will be Hurricane Isabel. It had everything going for it and had a cyclops eye, as well as 3 outflow channels, and an odd track. But, other storms may be your storm of the year pick. Juan, Claudette, Fabian. Put down your storm of the year, even if it's Isabel and put why you think it was the storm of the year.

[AussieMark]

Hurricane Isabel.

- first storm to reach category 5 since Mitch (1998).
- first storm to reach category 5 east of the Lesser Antilles since Hugo (1989).
- reached Category 5 on 2 seperate occassions
- was a Major Hurricane for 7 days
- took about a week from when it first developed to reach the United States.
- first Hurricane to impact the US East Coast since Floyd (1999).
- after striking the US coast it didn't recurve back out to sea, it ripped through the interior of the US.
-worst hurricane that the North Carolina Outer Banks and Virginia had seen since 1933.
- Most expensive Hurricane in the US since Floyd (1999) at a minimum.
- Deadliest US Hurricane since Tropical Storm Allison (2001).

[JCT777]

Isabel is the storm of the year. It was a Cat 5 storm for quite some time, and although greatly weakened at landfall from it's peak intensity - it did cause quite a bit of damage to NC and VA.