Ivan AND CAMILLE!!! FREAKY

[rtd2]

look simular (atleast just in picture and not in strength!)

http://myweb.cableone.net/nolasue/camilleivan.gif

[PurdueWx80]

Wow, they both look like hurricanes....as does every other hurricane I've seen. Camille was nowhere near a Cat 3 moving over the far south Caribbean.

[NorthGaWeather]

There are very similar in appearance and yes it doesn't take the village idiot to identify they are both hurricanes. Camille was around Cat 3 intensity in that position and shot up to Cat 5 a little further north.

[Anonymous]

They look absolutely nothing alike.

[Innotech]

I thought the exact same hting, only when Ivan was Cat 4 he looked almost exactly like Camille. However, appearance does not a cane make.

[TideFreak]

Camille was never in the Carribean

[vbhoutex]

Camille was never in the Carribean

WRONG!!! Camille came across the West end of Cuba as a Hurricane. If that isn't the Caribbean I don't know what it is.

[TideFreak]

Sry Camille was in the Carribean briefly, but it was the Northwest Carribean

[canegrl04]

Yep,I posted this early this morning

[NorthGaWeather]

Camille was a cape verde storm I believe so it would have made a long journey thru the Atlantic into the NW Caribbean.

[Canelaw99]

Here's the track I found for Camille -

http://www.hurricanetrack.com/JavaHist//

[Anonymous]

Camille was not a Cape Verde storm. And I really do not see any similarity in shape, or cloud pattern between the two, especially when you look at the respective eyes.

Take the time and read some history about Camille, on the internet. There are many sites/articles of good reading.

There hasn't been anything close to Camille, as far as U.S. landfalling hurricanes go, since she devestated the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

If a Camille like storm 190mph winds (220+/mph wind gusts) to hit the U.S., damages would be in the 10's of billions.

[NorthGaWeather]

Camille was a Cape Verde(African) wave. Please find the facts before claiming someone else is wrong.

[Anonymous]

A Cape Verde wave?

O.K...

[quickychick]

Camille was a Cape Verde(African) wave. Please find the facts before claiming someone else is wrong.

If I'm not mistaken, Camille was born just under west Cuba.

[NorthGaWeather]

From a report on Camille

"With satellite imagery, forecasters identified a typical tropical wave off the coast of Africa on August 5, 1969. On August 9, the system was about 480 miles east of the Caribbean's leeward islands. Five days later, the pilot of a Navy reconnaissance plane observed a central pressure of 29.50 inches of mercury and surface winds of 55 mph (USACE 1970). Forecasters classified Camille as a tropical storm located 60 miles west of Grand Cayman Island, 480 miles south of Miami"

[NorthGaWeather]

Yes it didn't develop until it was in the Caribbean.

[sunny]

Camille was a Cape Verde(African) wave. Please find the facts before claiming someone else is wrong.

Caribbean

http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/atl ... /track.gif

[Anonymous]

If I am not mistaken. All tropical waves traverse across the ITCZ, which would mean that by a natural occurence, Camille would HAVE to be a wave that came off the coast of Africa anyway.

Just something to think about.

[NorthGaWeather]

Well the technology wasn't as great as it is now however this could have been a TD or perhaps even before crossing into the Caribbean but I don't know the obs that were observed.