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#181 Postby somethingfunny » Sun Mar 13, 2011 3:50 pm

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Hurricane Jed wrote:They are currently meeting to decide that. March 7-11 I think. So we should know in a few days hopefully.


CrazyC83 wrote:If no names are retired, there is no announcement -


Sooooo, maybe none? Although I really don't see why y'all are so geeked up about it. If they do, they do. If they don't, they don't. Won't really change the price of fries at BK either way will it?



Well, if no names are retired, then the general public may get the impression that nothing very important happened during the 2010 season and it wasn't a big deal.

If several names are retired, maybe there will be a perception of increased risk of major storms as part of a continuing pattern of escalating activity, so oil speculators will build that risk into their futures contracts thereby causing a rise in the price of oil and the price of transporting potatoes from Idaho to the factory, thereby increasing the price of fries at Burger King. :D

If we get no retirements, maybe some traders will get the impression that the active period is ending and there is less justification for expensive oil, and the price of french fries could decrease. Or increase anyway because they really don't care if there's a justification or not to raise the prices. :roll:
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#182 Postby CrazyC83 » Sun Mar 13, 2011 4:03 pm

The meeting ended yesterday, so tomorrow (Monday) we might get a release as they don't usually release details on weekends.
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#183 Postby Hurricane Jed » Sun Mar 13, 2011 5:37 pm

somethingfunny wrote: Well, if no names are retired, then the general public may get the impression that nothing very important happened during the 2010 season and it wasn't a big deal.

If several names are retired, maybe there will be a perception of increased risk of major storms as part of a continuing pattern of escalating activity, so oil speculators will build that risk into their futures contracts thereby causing a rise in the price of oil and the price of transporting potatoes from Idaho to the factory, thereby increasing the price of fries at Burger King. :D

If we get no retirements, maybe some traders will get the impression that the active period is ending and there is less justification for expensive oil, and the price of french fries could decrease. Or increase anyway because they really don't care if there's a justification or not to raise the prices. :roll:


Makes you wonder since we haven't had any hurricane landfalls since 2008, how bad any hurricanes that make landfall in the U.S. will be this year.
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#184 Postby Macrocane » Sun Mar 13, 2011 6:05 pm

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Makes you wonder since we haven't had any hurricane landfalls since 2008, how bad any hurricanes that make landfall in the U.S. will be this year.


And no major hurricane landfalls since 2005 although Gustav and especially Ike showed us that "minor" hurricanes can be as dangerous as major ones.
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#185 Postby Hurricane Jed » Sun Mar 13, 2011 7:06 pm

:uarrow: And tropical storms. Allison 2001, Amelia 1978 etc.
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Re: 2010 retired hurricanes

#186 Postby Ptarmigan » Sun Mar 13, 2011 7:11 pm

Agreed Macrocane and Hurricane Jed. I have been through Allison (2001) and Ike. It was horrifying to put it at best. Ike did more damage than some major hurricanes have done on Texas.
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#187 Postby Hurricane Jed » Sun Mar 13, 2011 7:34 pm

Rains like a hammer too. Hermine moved through Central Texas and that was unbelievable and was on the coast in 1993 for Arlene. No wonder inland flooding has become the greatest killer and that more Category 1's are being retired.
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#188 Postby WeatherGuesser » Sun Mar 13, 2011 10:16 pm

somethingfunny wrote:Well, if no names are retired, then the general public may get the impression that nothing very important happened during the 2010 season and it wasn't a big deal.



The general public won't know (or care) one way or the other. Homer in Boise, Matilda in Albuquerque and Shaniqua in Philly don't pay attention to such things at all.



Ptarmigan wrote:Agreed Macrocane and Hurricane Jed. I have been through Allison (2001) and Ike. It was horrifying to put it at best. Ike did more damage than some major hurricanes have done on Texas.



Ike did serious damage all the way up into Ohio which is extremely rare.
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#189 Postby Hurricane Jed » Sun Mar 13, 2011 10:58 pm

:uarrow: Nonsense! All monsters have to have a name even hurricanes :P
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#190 Postby somethingfunny » Tue Mar 15, 2011 5:10 pm

No news?
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#191 Postby Hurricane Jed » Tue Mar 15, 2011 5:13 pm

:uarrow: Haven't heard anything yet. Checked a couple sites and Googled it a couple of times but nothing yet.
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#192 Postby Hurricane Jed » Wed Mar 16, 2011 10:58 am

I find it odd that it is nearly midday Wednesday, at least where I'm at and still no news. Starting to wonder if no names were retired.
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#193 Postby senorpepr » Wed Mar 16, 2011 11:12 am

Per Morgan Palmer (@MorganPalmer WBBH Meteorologist) Igor and Tomas were retired.
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#194 Postby HURAKAN » Wed Mar 16, 2011 11:25 am

Ian and Tobias are the replacements!
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#195 Postby HURAKAN » Wed Mar 16, 2011 11:30 am

By the way, I knew about it yesterday but it was still classified information! lol
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#196 Postby Hurricane Jed » Wed Mar 16, 2011 11:35 am

:uarrow: So no Alex, no Karl, no Matthew, no Agatha?
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#197 Postby HURAKAN » Wed Mar 16, 2011 11:37 am

Hurricane Jed wrote::uarrow: So no Alex, no Karl, no Matthew, no Agatha?


I was surprised too but if a country doesn't ask for it, there's nothing anyone can do.
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#198 Postby Hurricane Jed » Wed Mar 16, 2011 11:46 am

Wow. At the very least I thought Karl would be a shoe-in for retirement. Still I think they should take a vote on it regardless whether or not they make a request. Oh well though. Matthew and Agatha not being a retired were a bit of surprise considering how deadly and destructive they were in countries other than Mexico. I do like the replacement names though. And Tomas is the first T named storm retired too.
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#199 Postby somethingfunny » Wed Mar 16, 2011 12:11 pm

:roll: Oh Mexico.

At least they finally used Ian... that means there are officially no I names left!
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#200 Postby Hurricanehink » Wed Mar 16, 2011 12:28 pm

Wow, I'm not sure what I'm more shocked about - Karl or Agatha. And I really thought Alex was a shoe-in too.
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