I do think the season.....is over =here is a summary

[Anonymous]

I do think the 2003 hurricane season is over. We might still see development, for Lenny devloped on the 12th. Anyway, I have summed up Hurricane Season 2003:

Ana- A really neat sight to see in April, very neat!

Bill- It was the strongest tropical storm of 2003 to hit the coast. It almost formed an eye at landfall.

Claudette- I expected a little worse than 2001's Barry, but this thing intensified very rapidly, might have been approching 100 mph at landfall. Worst Texas storm since Tropical Storm Allison. Finally, TWC had someone in the eye, Jeff Morrow in Port O' Connor, but we could not get a report!!!

Danny- Alberto's brother, but could not live up to his potential, actually, he had none.

TD-6- Wanted to mention this, because it was the most dangerous depression of the season. It was a potental Isidore for a while, but, like mos depressions in the Eastern Caribbean this year, died out.

Erika- Jeez, it started by the Azores!!!! Took an Andrew-like track across Florida, and had ripe conditions to rapidly intensify, but like Debby, Chantal, moved to fast.

Fabian- Very deadly and destuctive hurricane for Bermuda, worst since 1926.

Grace- Poor Mike Seidel, standing in Galveston with one drop of rain.

Henri- Mike Seidel saw a shelf cloud, and a rainbow in Clearwater, FL. Poor Mike again.

Isabel- Likely a billion dollar US storm, many deaths, and moments many, including Jim Cantore, and Mike Seidel will never forget.

Juan- Destructive for Nova Scotia, very bad, winds probably were 100 mph. This name wants to be retired like Gordon. Gordon in 94 killed over a thousand, in 2000 killed 24. Juan in 85, and 2003.

Kate- I get dizzy looking at her track, but sure was a beauty out at sea.

Larry- Lazy jerk sat and tease us for a week!!!!

Mindy- Blustery weather for Bahamas, and rain for the DR.

Nicholas- Jeez, should I say like I did with Kyle, Nicholas would not die!!!

My sum up:

14 NS
6 H
3 MH

#-I think they will be retired.

Top 5 storms:
5. Ana-Rare storm
4. Claudette-Texas
3. Fabian-Bermuda#
2. Juan-Nova Scoita#
1. Isabel-NC, East Coast#

[AussieMark]

I can narrow that list down for a bit.

Isabel & Fabian - High chance of being retired as <B>Isabel</B> caused a minimum of $3 Billion and caused moderate-extensive damage to an area that is heavily populated.

<B>Fabian</B> - His NE quadrant of the eyewall lashed the island and pounded everything on it with 120 mph sustained winds --> strongest since Hurricane Edna 1954.

I would not rule out Juan being retired but the chances of a Juan retirement are more remote than the previous. Even though Canadian organizations want it removed the bottom line is it comes down to the "World Meteorology Organization" decision.

An April storm formation would not warrent Retirement if that is case then a whole can of worms would be opened if this were to happen.

Claudette will not be retired even though she was stronger than first though she caused only $180 Million....this is much less than the damage bill for Hurricanes Bertha (1996), Bonnie (1998), Irene (1999) and those storms were not even mentioned for retirement and if the case that she was a strong early season storm....then look at this Bertha struck North Carolina on July 12, 1996 and caused $270 Million of damages.

So in conclusion a maximum of 3 storms as of writing will be retired.

[JCT777]

Good summary of the season, Floydbuster. And we still may have Odette before all is said and done.

[george_r_1961]

If we have another hurricane here im moving to Alaska.

[ColdFront77]

Claudette- I expected a little worse than 2001's Barry, but this thing intensified very rapidly, might have been approching 100 mph at landfall. Worst Texas storm since Tropical Storm Allison. Finally, TWC had someone in the eye, Jeff Morrow in Port O' Connor, but we could not get a report!!!

I believe it was Jill Brown, who was in the eye of a hurricane that made landfall along the North Carolina coast several years ago. I want to say Emily, but not too sure.

#-I think they will be retired.

Top 5 storms:
5. Ana-Rare storm
4. Claudette-Texas
3. Fabian-Bermuda#
2. Juan-Nova Scoita#
1. Isabel-NC, East Coast#

Tropical cyclone names are not retired because of how rare they are.

[Guest]

Good summary of the season Mark and Floydbuster!!!!!!All in all this season pretty much behaved the way i expected it to with a few notable exceptions like Anna of course and my numbers below for the most part held true with the exception of Hurricanes (off by 1)..................Anyways i will be doing up a summary as well on this past season which will be comming to a offical close in the comming weeks!