Please refrain from voting in this poll!
For posterity, 59% (58 people) voted "yes", and 31% (39 people) voted "no" as of the time this post was written.
Calamity, got too much time on your hands so you went to resurrect old threads? No, just kidding with you. Great to see these threads back to the top of the page. Interesting seeing how people's predictions fared this year.
How Many People Think that a Monster Hurricane Will Hit
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Re: How Many People Think that a Monster Hurricane Will Hit
boca_chris wrote:I want to get an idea of how many people think a "monster" hurricane will hit the U.S. this year. By "monster", I don't mean the hurricanes of 2004 because they were not monster by any means. I mean super hurricanes like Camille, Gilbert, Mitch, Andrew, or even Luis. Conditions in the Atlantic are expected to be very favorable to form a monster hurricane this year.
2004 hurricanes were not monster storms? Yes, now that we are in late 2005, it might be somewhat reasonable to say that, but if you look at what they did and had. Together, the 2004 storms had all the damaging properties of even the worst storms. Charley, wind. 150mph is one of the strongest landfall windspeeds of any storm. Stronger than Luis at landfall. Ivan, surge. Ivan, before Katrina, drove a massive storm surge. Not nearly as great as Camille's, but bilbical nonetheless. Frances, rain and tornadoes. Frances spawned countless tornadoes and dropped flooding rains. Jeanne, exacerbate the situation further. Well, basically, Jeanne was left to annoy the United States even more.
Btw... people need to do research. If we think about winds, Mitch was by no means whatsoever a monster storm. It made landfall as either a TS or a Cat 1. If we look in terms of rain, then your other storms don't make the cut. Be consistent, but in any book, the 2004 storms were monsters. at least Ivan and Charley were.
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