EPAC Hurricane Season starts

[Cyclone1]

00:00 UTC tomorrow, the EPAC kicks into gear, with nothing to show for it at the moment. I gotta say, I almost forgot.

[JonathanBelles]

lol...We will also do a little thing in chat tonight for it. I dont know if Ill stay up until 12a PT, but there are a few diehards that will.

[Cyclone1]

Alas, that will not be me.

June 1st, absolutely. Even though I'll have exams the following day. It's worth it.

[Cyclone1]

HAPPY EPAC HURRICANE SEASON!!!!! (UTC time)

[Category 5]

HAPPY EPAC HURRICANE SEASON!!!!!!!!!!!

[Hybridstorm_November2001]

Happy, and hopefully safe, EPAC hurricane seaon everyone!

[caneflyer]

00:00 UTC tomorrow, the EPAC kicks into gear, with nothing to show for it at the moment. I gotta say, I almost forgot.

Season really begins at midnight, Pacific daylight time, not at 00Z. The first east Pacific Tropical Weather Outlook will come out at 8 am ET (5 am PT, 1200 UTC) on the 15th, not at 0600 UTC, which would be still 11 PM PT on the 14th.

[Cyclone1]

00:00 UTC tomorrow, the EPAC kicks into gear, with nothing to show for it at the moment. I gotta say, I almost forgot.

Season really begins at midnight, Pacific daylight time, not at 00Z. The first east Pacific Tropical Weather Outlook will come out at 8 am ET (5 am PT, 1200 UTC) on the 15th, not at 0600 UTC, which would be still 11 PM PT on the 14th.

Err...

Oh well, Happy hurricane season.

[HURAKAN]

Already started and nothing up yet.

SEASON CANCELLED!!!!

[Cyclone1]

Already started and nothing up yet.

SEASON CANCELLED!!!!

Stick a fork in this season its done!!

[Ed Mahmoud]

I still remember when Pacific Hurricane Rosa made landfall in Mexico, it's mid-level circulation crossed over the Sierra Madre, and interacted with a shallow cold air mass across Southeast and South Central Texas, resulting in the San Jacinto river catching fire when currents scoured out the river bottom and and ruptured a gasoline and a crude oil pipeline.


It was raining in Austin then too, and a friend of mine, who had had a couple of beers, skidded at a red light and tapped another car. A police woman came over, saw everything was ok, and left. Maybe the rain discouraged a field sobriety test my friend may or may not have passed.

[JonathanBelles]

I sent Franklin an email on the starting time of the season...as read below... (my message is below Franklin's)

Jonathan,

I guess I'd have to say midnight Pacific time, since we won't put out
the first Pacific TWO until 5 am Pacific Daylight Time this morning.
We begin and end the outlooks based on local time, not UTC.

James
--
James L. Franklin

Senior Hurricane Specialist
National Hurricane Center
NOAA/NWS/Tropical Prediction Center
11691 SW 17th Street, Miami FL 33165

Email: James.Franklin@noaa.gov
Ph: 305-229-4475
Fax: 305-553-1901





On May 14, 2008, at 11:37 PM, Jonathan Belles wrote:

> Hey Mr. Franklin,
> There is some confusion at storm2k. Does the EPAC Hurricane Season
> start at 00Z or at midnight PT? I was thinking the later since the
> NHC doesnt issue TWO's until 12Z.
>
> Thanks.
> Jonathan Belles
>

[senorpepr]

Ahh... good to know. Thanks.

[Chacor]

As I'd always suspected. I put out my case based on TWOs vehemently at the end of last season but no one wanted to listen. I can now rest my case, vindicated.

[JonathanBelles]

I said the same thing in chat last night and got blasted for it.

[RL3AO]

As I'd always suspected. I put out my case based on TWOs vehemently at the end of last season but no one wanted to listen. I can now rest my case, vindicated.

No, we just don't want to wait.

[KWT]

Well the season has started now in the EPAC, now just a case of waiting and seeing as to when things really kick off and we see our first tropical cyclone out there.

[HurricaneBill]

Here are the names for the 2008 EPAC season:

Alma
Boris
Cristina
Douglas
Elida
Fausto
Genevieve
Hernan
Iselle
Julio
Karina (replaces Kenna)
Lowell
Marie
Norbert
Odile
Polo
Rachel
Simon
Trudy
Vance
Winnie
Xavier
Yolanda
Zeke

[brunota2003]

Karina is really close name to a monster..."Katrina"

[CrazyC83]

That's what I thought...the problem is the variances in local time - especially for deep Atlantic storms (AST is always used east of about 65°W).