Possible TS over Africa?? :)

[ericinmia]

Joe B claims Donna gave 5 hours of hurricane force winds in Africa.

He thinks this storm may do the same.
UKMET (144hrs):

[WindRunner]

Well, I don't know about that, but the UKMET sure does redevelop TD10 and whatever is over the CV islands as well as that monster over africa. Too bad it'll probably fall apart after getting off-shore. And wow, that's just 6 days away. Weekend sounds like the gun at the start of the race.

[BayouVenteux]

Joe B claims Donna gave 5 hours of hurricane force winds in Africa.

He thinks this storm may do the same.
UKMET (144hrs):

Two friendly clarifications to your post...

1.) It was 5 hours of minimal hurricane force winds reportedly recorded in the Cape Verde Islands, not the African continent , with the system that became Hurricane Donna. Records indicate that Donna officially became a tropical depression around the time it passed the Cape Verdes (around 20-22W) and later a hurricane around 40W.

2.) Bastardi didn't say he thought it was going to be a hurricane before moving off of Africa, only that the UKMET had depicted it as such in consecutive model runs.

People put an unabridged dictionary's worth of words into the man's mouth already. Just wanted to nip another potential superfluous Bastardi bash-a-thon in the bud.

[ericinmia]

Look i'm extremely busy so this is quick.

I wasn't saying anything about joe b, i like his insight.

Please read things properly before criticizing
I said "He thinks this storm may do the same." after a title of "Possible ts over Africa?? "

I said it could be a tropical system, not a hurricane, and that joe b said this could be a similar situation.

I love the god complex of people talking on the internet.

[Scorpion]

Wow that ridge looks pretty nice though.

[WindRunner]

Yeah, nice to send one to the East coast!

[Stratosphere747]

Look i'm extremely busy so this is quick.

I wasn't saying anything about joe b, i like his insight.

Please read things properly before criticizing
I said "He thinks this storm may do the same." after a title of "Possible ts over Africa?? "

I said it could be a tropical system, not a hurricane, and that joe b said this could be a similar situation.

I love the god complex of people talking on the internet.

Eric....

In Bayou's defense he did begin the post with "Two friendly clarifications to your post..."

In reference to "Joe B claims Donna gave 5 hours of hurricane force winds in Africa".... That did deserve some clarification, as it seemed to infer that the continent received these type of winds and not the CV islands..

Very interesting though....

Scott

[Aquawind]

Yeah, nice to send one to the East coast!

LOL.. Exactly.. Not so nice for some..

Modis of the possible suspect..

http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/real ... A052271220


Paul

[BayouVenteux]

Look i'm extremely busy so this is quick.

I wasn't saying anything about joe b, i like his insight.

Please read things properly before criticizing
I said "He thinks this storm may do the same." after a title of "Possible ts over Africa?? "

I said it could be a tropical system, not a hurricane, and that joe b said this could be a similar situation.

I love the god complex of people talking on the internet.

And I love (NOT!) the inherent inability of an internet message board post to convey proper context in one mere human being's communication to another.

My aim was merely to clarify - not criticize – in a friendly, non-flaming, anything but malicious manner what your post seemed to indicate concerning the Bastardi video after reading the passage...

Joe B claims Donna gave 5 hours of hurricane force winds in Africa.

He thinks this storm may do the same.

Apologies for any perceived offense on my part. How about I forgive the "God complex" remark and we'll call it even?

[hurricanedude]

yes..Donna did indeed give the area around Drakar Africa 5 hours of SUSTAINED hurricane force winds!!!

[BayouVenteux]

yes..Donna did indeed give the area around Drakar Africa 5 hours of SUSTAINED hurricane force winds!!!

I spent a couple minutes earlier today trying to find any supporting historical evidence online for the aforementioned...no luck. All the available track data indicates that the storm became a depression around 20w (around the Cape Verdes) and a hurricane around 40w. I guess the track and intensity would have been based solely on ship reports, as satellite recon was still very much in its infancy, TIROS I having been launched in April of that year.

I'm by no means disputing the possibility of hurricane force winds on the African coast, just trying to verify in greater detail that it occurred.

Looks like a job for our superb resident historian SouthernWx!

[webke]

I have a question,
Here we experience many storms that come through and move on carrying their winds and rains with them that are only considered severe thunderstorms. Is it possible that this is what happened in Africa.