cycloneye wrote:And stormsfury the 1998 season too.... :o you may know why.
I sure do ... How could I forget the 1998 season? (Which I did in my original post above). With Georges, and Mitch ... Georges made a ton of landfalls and impacted many areas from the Caribbean, to Florida, and the GOM ... and Mitch ... Strongest October Hurricane of record, and then the tragic loss of life in Nicaragua and Honduras due to inland flooding.
Steve wrote:Dude. I was looking at the African Sat the other day and there was a storm coming out of the Indian or Atlantic (?) Ocean about to enter East Africa that already looked like a depression (kind of).
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As to 1998, I remember it well. New Orleans got massive flooding from Tropical Storm Frances off the South Texas Coast, had a scare with Georges who veered off at the last minute but destroyed almost all the camps in Lake Pontchartrain, cut power across the city and blew down trees, then Hermine which was BOR-ING. We got the center, but the convection was east of Mobile (!!). I think I saw a 15mph gust from her.
Still, it was a fun year - nothing like 2002 for SE LA, but it still rocked.
Steve, I haven't seen the latest Meteosat, but with the way things are setting up since yesterday (in which I noticed several large areas of convection) ... I strongly feel a blockbuster will occur this season. I think my forecast numbers in my signature sum up my call for an active season as well ..
Believe it or not, the remnants of Hermine were not boring in the least bit ... since daytime heating combined with the dying spin of Hermine ... induced thunderstorms which dumped on 9/21/1998 ... get this ... between 10"-15" of rain in just 4 hours in the Charleston area ... Some of the worst flooding occurred in the North area where several locations including one trailer park had some spots where 6 FEET of standing water flooded mobile homes, cars, etc... Thunderstorms had trained along a line from just south of here (North Charleston into Charleston) with the airport picking up an all-time record 24hr rainfall of 10.33", and most of that falling in 4 hours. My area received barely 2".
1999, almost a year and a week later, I made up for that when a nearly stationary cell dumped 9¼" of rain in just 2½ hours ... Summerville, Ladson, and North Charleston, recorded significant flooding and flood damage ...
SF
