Hurricane Wilma

Wilma, the most intense hurricane ever recorded, is a strong Category 5 storm that is centered at the Caribbeans. It might hit the Florida panhandle this weekend but this is even worse than Rita and Katrina.

[Oscar]

Man did Fred from the Flinstones really screw up, he pist off his wife badly! yaba yaba doooooo!

Why are all those deadly hurricanes always named after women? [xx(]

[Oscar]

Cuz women go after your heart, where it hurts more, like Hurricanes go after your possesions, money, which is what hurts even more!

[hyyyper]

Originally posted by WeeWeeSlap

Man did Fred from the Flinstones really screw up, he pist off his wife badly! yaba yaba doooooo!

i was gonna say that![lol]

Wow. Its the most intense and I havn't even herd of it untill today.

same here hope and pray for everyone

yep, it'll be here in Florida on Saturday.

Its most likly not going to reach FL at full strength. Its got alot of adverse conditions to go through before it reaches FL and they dont expect it to hit with the force it has now.

Since this morning its already started to diminish.


Amazing though how the storm was in the exact right place at the right time and it BLEW UP. Not only has it been the strongest (with a millibar under 880) on record but it went from nothing to record in record time.

We are preparing again here ... might have to go assist with emergency operations after it passes ... man, I'll be glad when this season of storms is officially over and we can look forward to just cold weather here.

Originally posted by ExTraxYz

Why are all those deadly hurricanes always named after women? [xx(]

Slap ... seriously though ...
They are not always women: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml
But then again, we have covered this before ...

Wilma is indeed the most intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded. It beat out the record set by hurricane Gilbert back in 1988 by 6 millibars. Here is the list of the 6 most intense hurricanes ever recorded. What is so surprising about this list is that 3 of those hurricanes are from THIS YEAR! The hurricanes are listed by name, year, and minimum air pressure. The 3 hurricanes from this year are in bold.

Wilma - 882 mb (2005)
Gilbert - 888 mb (1988)
Great Labor Day Hurricane - 892 mb (1935)
Rita - 897 mb (2005)
Allen - 899 mb (1980)
Katrina - 902 mb (2005)

2005 is the first year in history to have 3 category 5 hurricanes.

2005 also ties the record for the most named storms in a season (21) set back in 1933.

2005 also ties the record for the most hurricanes in a season (12) set back in 1969.

This seems to be a very ominous trend... there have been more category five hurricanes in the last 3 years than there were all the way from 1979 through 2002. Many suspect that global warming, and rising ocean temperatures are to blame. It would make sense... and if the ocean surface temperatures continue to rise, we can expect the trend of killer storms to continue. 2006 will be another horrible season. In 2007, we will get a break from the madness due to El Nino, but it will pick right back up in 2008 and 2009. We're in for one long trek.

Now, about the name question:

When hurricanes were first named, the folks at the National Hurricane Center started naming them after their girlfriends, beginning with Carol, Hazel, Edna, etc. Now, hurricanes have both male and female names, alternating between the two.

This year:

Female -

Arlene, Cindy, Emily, Gert, Irene, Katrina, Maria, Ophelia, Rita, Tammy, Wilma

Male -

Bret, Dennis, Franklin, Harvey, Jose, Lee, Nate, Philippe, Stan, Vince

And if we have any more storms this year, the names will be neither male or female.

Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon
etc...

[Oscar]

Slap ... seriously though ...
They are not always women: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml
But then again, we have covered this before ...

looks like you can't read the name of who you are quoting up there Tconwell May I get you an elementary teacher to assist you?

Has anyone else noticed how all 3 cat 5 storms this year have targeted the 3 biggest bay cities of the gulf of mexico? Katrina targeted New Orleans, Rita targeted Houston, and now Wilma is targeting Tampa.

By the way... looking at the latest satellite images of Wilma, it appears that the storm has gone through an eyewall replacement cycle. The inner eyewall was strangled by the outer eyewall, and now the old outer eyewall has shrunk and become the inner eyewall. What this means is that Wilma is done with its reorganization phase, and will be re-strengthning to a category 5 before making landfall on the Yucatan Penninsula.

Once the storm makes landfall in the Yucatan, it will weaken. By the time it re-emerges into the Gulf of Mexico, it will be encountering a large mass of dry air, which will inhibit any further strengthning of the storm, and push it to the east, toward the gulf coast of Florida. It will make landfall somewhere between Naples and Tampa as a category 2 or 3 hurricane. Then, depending on where it makes landfall, it will either head out to the atlantic or parallel the atlantic coast and bring rain and high winds up the entire eastern seaboard. Everything is speculative now, but this is the best guess for now.

One random thing I noticed is that all the really nasty hurricanes' names all end with an "A".

Katrina
Rita
Wilma

Originally posted by WeeWeeSlap

Slap ... seriously though ...
They are not always women: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml
But then again, we have covered this before ...

looks like you can't read the name of who you are quoting up there Tconwell May I get you an elementary teacher to assist you?

"Slap" was being used as a verb -- not a noun. May I pass that teacher over to you now?

[Oscar]

cjd - our own wws.com meteorologist
tconwell - our new grade school graduate

^lol but anyways ive heard after passing through florida the hurricane could restrengthen and dart up the eastcoast...just like the great hurricane of 1938

Originally posted by WeeWeeSlap

cjd - our own wws.com meteorologist

While I was working at Cedar Point, my nickname was "The Human Barometer" because I would always bet with my fellow Bayou Refreshments crew on whether it would rain or not. (I won 9 times, lost none, and tied once, when we got into a dispute over whether mist counts as rain...)

I got me some real smarts now!!!

I live in the keys (Bottom of Florida) and school is cancelled for the week, and I probably won't go back until late next week if the hurricane doesn't directly hit. For that reason, I'm making an Evac trip to Orlando tomorrow. I bet the parks will be fairly empty.

Pic: Flooded dock during Rita

I heard on nbc nightly news that hurricane Wilma is going to hit floarda tommorw at 7am. The hurricane is a cat2 and might get stonger before hiting florda. I hope that disneyworld gets thougth this hurricane without alot of damage. The strom looks like it is going to come up the east coast I herd that on my loacl news so I will get rain tommorw thougth wenday and it could be relly hard rain. I don'nt need alot of havy rain becuse there was alot of havy rain last weekend and it made a big mess in the northeast. My local town had flooding and new elaned had flooding so I hope that the rain is'nt to havy and it is only in the 50s where I live and it is going to be like that all week. October is going to end on a very weat month for pa and the other sties in the northeast I had 5.95 inches of rain for this month so far and it rained yesterday and friday so it is going to be a very wet month for me.

Hurricane Wilma wasn't all that bad. A lot of the stuff that you heard was hype. I missed college yesterday (monday) and it was sunny outside after the "hurricane".