Hurricane Ivan

[Elgalad]

Gaston and Hermine must have fizzled out or never got upgraded.

-E

 

[MarineCorps]

Ah, yet another advantage of living in the North East. No Hurricanes.

 

[Civrules]

How can people in Florida live like this? They have to evacuate each year, and in this case, each week.

 

[Cuivienen]

Gaston and Hermine must have fizzled out or never got upgraded.

-E

Gaston hit the Carolinas before Frances hit Florida. Hermine just stayed in the middle of the Atlantic and fizzled.

 

[stormbind]

Ah, yet another advantage of living in the North East. No Hurricanes.

Just mega tsunamis

 

[SeleucusNicator]

Yeah, Gaston did quite a bit of damage.

 

[Chris85]

Good thing I live in Nebraska, we only get tornadoes and blizzards up here.

Usually there's only one big hurricane per season, if any. Three is unusual, but not impossible. It's if this one ends up landing as Category 5 that would make it extraordinary -- only two Category 5 hurricanes have ever made landfall (Camille in 1969 and Andrew in 1992).

Actually there have been 3 Category 5 hurricanes to hit the US. The other one being the 1935 Labor Day hurricane that hit the Florida Keys and the Everglades.

Ivan will probably smear the Lesser Antilles tomorrow and then it could possibly strengthen to a Cat. 5 before it hits Hispaniola. However Hispaniola is a mountainous island, so Ivan could weaken quite a bit when passing over the island.


EDIT: Here is the expected path as of 11AM EDT. It looks like its setting its eyes on Florida for this coming weekend.

 

[Chieftess]

Is this normal?

One year, there were 4 hurricanes in the Atlantic at the same time (I think it was in September.

So, yes, it could be normal in the sense that September is the busiest month for hurricanes. It peaks right around this time.

 

[Chris85]

The peak of Hurricane season is around Spetember 10th.

Chieftess must be talking about the 1995 hurricane season. It was the 2nd most active on record. During that year Iris, Karen, Luis, Marilyn all were hurricanes in the Atlantic at the same time. Three of those storms hit the Lesser Antilles within a two week period of time.

 

[MarineCorps]

Just mega tsunamis

Never seen one. just ice, snow, and below 0 weather.

 

[stormbind]

Has a hurricane ever crossed the gulf... land... and vanished into the pacific?

 

[eyrei]

This is really a lot worse than it usually is, if I'm not mistaken. Maybe god and/or mother nature finally got annoyed enough at Floridians that it has been decided that they must be destroyed.

 

[Chieftess]

Has a hurricane ever crossed the gulf... land... and vanished into the pacific?

I think so. I remember one hurricane doing that in the 90s.

 

[PantheraTigris2]

There are huuricanes in the Pacific... south of California, etc.... all the time... they just keep moving westwards, though.

 

[Cuivienen]

I think he means one that appears in the Gulf, then crosses Mexico into the Pacific. I think the mountains in Mexico would kill the hurricane, but maybe not if it was Category 4-5.

 

[SeleucusNicator]

There was one hurricaine that hit the Gulf coast, went over the continental United States as a dying storm, then came out in the Mid-Atlantic states, and then developed back into a hurricaine when it went back on the ocean.

 

[Quasar1011]

Has a hurricane ever crossed the gulf... land... and vanished into the pacific?

Yes. In 1988, Hurricane Joan crossed Nicaragua, and made it into the Pacific, where it was re-named Miriam. Below is the tracking info for the Atlantic portion of the storm. At one point, Joan reached category 4.

 

[Perfection]

Could you get a map of what happened after it became Miriam?

 

[Quasar1011]

Note the 23 Oct 1988 date on the graph of Joan above. That's when it was re-named Miriam. Here is the tracking chart for Miriam: (By the way, in 1978, Hurricane Greta crossed Honduras and Mexico, entered the Pacific, and was re-named Olivia...)

 

[Quasar1011]

A luck I don't live on that side of the Atlantic.

It is rare, but Atlantic hurricanes have been known to cross the ocean and strike Europe. Ireland, England, and France have been struck; and yes, even Norway! Hurricane Faith crossed the Atlantic in 1966, and still had hurricane-force winds when it struck the Norwegian coast. Note that the below tracking chart ends Faith's path north of Scotland; the U.S. National Hurricane Center stopped tracking the storm at that point.

Faith 1966 Longest Hurricane track
Hurricane Faith, a classic Cape Verde storm, spent 18 days traversing its great arc across the Atlantic. Twice it threatened land - the Virgin Islands and the Carolinas - but veered away both times. Finally, on September 6, after travelling 8,000 miles over open water, Faith came ashore near Trondheim, Norway. One person drowned when a ferry boat sank near Denmark. Remnants of this long-lived storm were tracked another 9 days and 2,700 miles, crossing northwestern Russia and finally dissipating over the ice a mere 300 miles from the North Pole.