Has a Hurricane ever....

Wnghs2007 · #1 Postby **Wnghs2007** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 4:01 pm

Looped around and made landfall on the African Coast as a Hurricane? Mets any onewant to inform me.

James · #2 Postby **James** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 4:14 pm

Not in the last 153 years. That's as far back as I can find.

Josephine96 · #3 Postby **Josephine96** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 4:15 pm

Then apparently not lol

James · #4 Postby **James** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 4:16 pm

Is it actually possible for a storm to do that kind of thing?

Josephine96 · #5 Postby **Josephine96** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 4:17 pm

I would think it is.. But apparently it's never happened lol

Matthew5 · #6 Postby **Matthew5** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 4:19 pm

Believe me it is possible, about as possible, as that hurricane we saw in March...

#7 Postby **mascpa** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 4:19 pm

Never say never.

James · #8 Postby **James** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 4:21 pm

With such an unpredictable season that is probably what will happen next. :wink:

Josephine96 · #9 Postby **Josephine96** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 4:24 pm

LOL James

Matthew5 · #10 Postby **Matthew5** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 4:26 pm

I would not be surprized if Lisa, moved up to 40 north/20 west. Then made a loop through the Atlantic...Ended up at 10 north/60 west moving through the Caribbean as a cat3 hurricane. I also would not be surprized if this hurricane hit Florida...

:eek:

Stormsfury · #11 Postby **Stormsfury** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 4:30 pm

Wnghs2007 wrote:Looped around and made landfall on the African Coast as a Hurricane? Mets any onewant to inform me.

It hasn't happened ... Lenny was the only storm of record to traverse from West to East across the Caribbean..

To give you an idea of just how difficult to almost meteorlogically impossible, the Azores High (semi-permanent feature in the ATL) is one factor, which produces the low-level easterlies (tradewinds).

Second, for a storm to loop back into Africa, it would encounter a very cold current of SST's off the Northern African Coast (in the NW portion where SST's are commonly below 70ºF all year round due to the northerly ocean current, much like off the U.S. Pacific Coast ...

To get a trough that can dig down deep enough to catch one just forming, the system would get sheared apart, and if somehow it could survive that, the cold SST's would get it ...

SF

GalvestonDuck · #12 Postby **GalvestonDuck** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 4:38 pm

It didn't loop back as a hurricane, but didn't someone earlier say that Jeanne was actually Frances (or the same low?)

rxdoc · #13 Postby **rxdoc** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 4:42 pm

They were joking about Frances.

ROCK · #14 Postby **ROCK** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 10:28 pm

GalvestonDuck wrote:It didn't loop back as a hurricane, but didn't someone earlier say that Jeanne was actually Frances (or the same low?)

Hey Duck they were joking about that I saw it too.....btw you been on the spirits tour down on Gal??? get on the bus and hop around town and cemetaries?? I booked a tour in Oct. wondering if youve been.....

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