http://www.weather.com/newscenter/tropical/?from=wxcenter_news
That article has some info about it....it's already made landfall in Cuba.
Originally posted by manny321
So it looks like this is going to be one hell of a hurricane season as we already have the earliest major hurricane in history. It appears it will hit the US at Cat 4 strength. So this can be as or more dangerous as Ivan. Anyone have any more info or thoughts.
We always have a strong hurricane during Summer.Been that way for centuries.
Originally posted by manny321
So it looks like this is going to be one hell of a hurricane season as we already have the earliest major hurricane in history. It appears it will hit the US at Cat 4 strength. So this can be as or more dangerous as Ivan. Anyone have any more info or thoughts.
Hurrican Ivan
Strength: Category 3 Hurricane
Deaths and damage: 124 direct and indirect deaths in U.S. and abroad, $14.2 billion in U.S. damage.
Landfall: Gulf Shores, AL on Sept. 16, 2004
Wind speed at landfall: 130 mph
Extent of Hurricane winds: 115 miles
Extent of Tropical storm winds: 220 miles
Notes: Ivan caused significant damage from winds and storm surge along the coastline of Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida panhandle. Heavy rain and over 100 tornadoes occurred in the interior Southeast, Tennessee Valley and Mid-Atlantic regions from the system.
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You are probably thinking about Hurricane Charley
Strength: Category 4 Hurricane.
Deaths and damage: 24 deaths, $11.2 billion in insured damage..
Landfall: Punta Gorda, Florida on Aug. 13, 2004 .
Wind speed at landfall: 145 mph.
Extent of Hurricane winds: 30 miles.
Extent of Tropical storm winds: 115 miles.
Notes: At $11.2 billion in damage, Hurricane Charley is the second costliest hurricane on record in the United States. Tens of thousands of buildings were damaged, 12,000 destroyed and more than 2 million customers were without electrical services at the conclusion of the storm.
Originally posted by manny321
True i am saying it is quite early for one so does this mean a repeat of last year or something worse. By the way i was in the weakest of the four hurricanes last year Jeanne and i was scared half to death so i say you guys are brave by going through 3 more worse hurricanes.
Lucky.
Originally posted by ragesRemorse
hope we get some good death tolls this year, none of that two digit shit.
😂
Originally posted by Royal Knight
You are probably thinking about Hurricane Charley [/B]
Ivan and Charley were two different types of storms. Charley was very fast-moving and moved northeast across the state. It was also relatively small. It struck quick, but it struck extremely hard.
Ivan (pictured in my avatar) was nothing short of massive in terms of size. It was a slow mover and caused absolutely incredible storm surge and flooding that rendered people powerless, even in the northeast US.
But...in all actuality neither of them was the most fatal one of last year. Somebody in this thread didn't think too much of Hurricane Jeanne, but in truth it killed somewhere around 1,500 people in Haiti.
Originally posted by ragesRemorse
hope we get some good death tolls this year, none of that two digit shit.
You made this comment last year. Maybe you'll be one of them this year so we can be spared the comment in 2006.
Also, let me throw some things out for you:
While maximum sustained windspeed (the numbers that define the "Category"😉 are nice, sexy, and glamourous for television, they are USUALLY not the killer part of it. The winds do destroy buildings and send debris flying through the air but typically aren't the worst part for anything Category 3 or below.
The keys are the speed it's traveling, tornadoes that spawn hundreds of miles away, and overall size of the storm.
The reason for the tornadoes is obvious.
The speed it travels determines how long it "sits" over a particular area. I heard on the news that Dennis is going to be "sitting" over some area in Illinois for a few days. Good luck to everyone that lives there.
Slow-moving storms are massive soakers. In mountain areas with rivers running between the mountains, that can cause incredible flooding. It's almost always the flooding that causes the most deaths, not the wind speed. Take a look back at Hurricane Francis from last year. Almost all of the worst damage occurred outside of Florida.
In 1954, Hurricane Hazel hit a relatively unwarned North Carolina coast at a strong Category 2 strength. More people died in Toronto from the flooding than North Carolina from the wind speed.
Now of course there are exceptions. When you get storms with just amazing wind speeds like Hurricanes Camille in '69 and Andrew in '92, the flooding takes a backseat because those winds are just too tough for anything to survive. I personally believe that it's only when sustained winds are above 135 mph (category 4) that the wind speed damage will supersede the damage from the amount of water.