October: 'Tis the Season for Interesting Hurricane Tracks

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October: 'Tis the Season for Interesting Hurricane Tracks

#1 Postby donsutherland1 » Sat Oct 02, 2004 2:21 pm

In October and beyond, the strengthening of ridges and troughs associated with advancing autumn and approaching winter can lead to some unusual tracks for tropical storms and hurricanes.

Among such unusual tracks, one occasionally sees tropical storms or hurricanes back south and westward from north of 25°N and east of 70°W for an extended period of time. In very rare cases, such storms actually make landfall.

Three examples of such storms follow:

Tropical Storm #9 (1906):
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Hurricane #6 (1935):
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Tropical Storm #6 (1938):
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#2 Postby Brent » Sat Oct 02, 2004 2:23 pm

Bizarre-o-Rama. :eek:
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#3 Postby James » Sat Oct 02, 2004 2:30 pm

How about Hurricane Laurie in 1969? That's a pretty unusual track, although not from the same region as the storms you showed.

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#4 Postby cycloneye » Sat Oct 02, 2004 2:39 pm

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And how about Crazy Lenny in 1999 which moved from west to east in the caribbean as a cat 4 cane in mid november.
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#5 Postby Buck » Sat Oct 02, 2004 3:03 pm

Yeah, Lenny was absolutely insane.
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#6 Postby ColdFront77 » Sat Oct 02, 2004 3:04 pm

Proof of some "loopers" I refer to from time to time.
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#7 Postby greeng13 » Sat Oct 02, 2004 3:05 pm

to me this does not seem so far-fetched...although not in october didn't jeanne have a similar wacky track? and head south as well with landfall?
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#8 Postby James » Sat Oct 02, 2004 3:06 pm

That was one crazy storm - and to top it off it became a CAT 4!

How about the Hurricane Ivan from 1980?

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Interesting as well that it formed so far north.
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#9 Postby WeatherEmperor » Sat Oct 02, 2004 3:11 pm

lol those are alot of wacky tracks and are causing my brain to spin!

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#10 Postby Buck » Sat Oct 02, 2004 3:59 pm

Kyle in 2002 was CRAZY too...

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#11 Postby James » Sat Oct 02, 2004 4:02 pm

Perhaps the craziest of them all...
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#12 Postby KeyLargoDave » Sat Oct 02, 2004 6:04 pm

Hows that for a bad year for the middle Keys? Labor Day and that Oct-Nov storm a month later.
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#13 Postby Stormsfury » Sat Oct 02, 2004 6:40 pm

The 1935 storm that hit Miami in Nov is "affectionately" known as the Yankee Hurricane, for it's the only storm of record (so far) to have hit Miami from the NE ...

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#14 Postby QueenBee » Sat Oct 02, 2004 6:50 pm

Hurricane Juan in either 1984,1985, or was it 1986. That storm looped and hit louisiana twice.
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#15 Postby Stormsfury » Sat Oct 02, 2004 6:54 pm

It was Juan in 1985 ...

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#16 Postby Brent » Sat Oct 02, 2004 6:58 pm

Lenny was bizarre. I called it the "backwards" hurricane. :lol:
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#17 Postby James » Sun Oct 03, 2004 1:59 am

"The Backwards Hurricane" - has a certain ring to it. :lol:
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