Hurricane Wilma

Manukau heads obs · Tue 25/10/2005 08:35

http://www.weather-watch.com/smf/index. ... 2175;image
a graph of it crossing this station (just to the north of this station, south eastern Florida)
it has very big ragged eye ...

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Tue 25/10/2005 19:16

Spwill, tks for the interesting photos. So thats what Virginia Beach looks like. I prefer Piha.

Looking at weather for Virginia there has been snow in the west of the state. That must be in the Applachians.

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Wed 26/10/2005 05:48

So thats what Virginia Beach looks like

Flatt, clean, tidy and boring.
Hot summers and mild winters with a little snow.

Some heavy rain here on the Coast yesterday with Wilma out to the East.

spike_01 · Unread post by **spike_01** » Wed 26/10/2005 08:17

Stupid CNN Reporter... Live report and he said he was " In the eye of the Storm " and the wind was gusting around 100mph...

Well I always thought if you were in the " Eye " there was no wind...

squid · Unread post by **squid** » Wed 26/10/2005 08:47

lol yes the stupid reporters get it wrong heaps of the time

witch is rather annoying bt anyways it seems that wilma has done her thing now and is moving on

Manukau heads obs · Wed 26/10/2005 13:07

it was the areas to the south of the eye that got the strongest winds (100mph +)
because of the fast forward speed of the hurricane that had to be added to the windspeed, and because of the onshore winds over the southern florida coastline...

spike_01 · Unread post by **spike_01** » Wed 26/10/2005 17:04

Yes but the Reporter said he was " in the eye " of the Storm...There is No Wind in the eye...

Today they said there was 5 more weeks of Hurricane season to go... Watches with interest if any more arrive...

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Wed 26/10/2005 17:58

JohnGaul
NZTS

Yeah

well... there could be a few more.
Storm Alemea ( or whatever it's name was) that drenched Haiti should join up in Wilma's path and produce some good weather for the north Atlantic if they get that far.

I see that that storm is a 'Gone-burger' now.

Has anyone got a favourite name that they would like to name a TC or Hurricane?

I would love to see a Hurricane Stig

...or a TC Sterence

squid · Unread post by **squid** » Wed 26/10/2005 20:40

that was tropical storm alpha that drenched Hati and the nxt one will be called beta they will go through the greek alphabet because they have run out of names for the season

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Wed 26/10/2005 21:28

squid wrote:that was tropical storm alpha that drenched Hati and the nxt one will be called beta they will go through the greek alphabet because they have run out of names for the season

Shame

There are lots and lots of names.

JohnGaul
NZTS

What about Hurricane Xena?, Tropical Storm Yellowbeard (after the Monty Python story with the late Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman) and hurricane Ziggy, after the David Bowie song.
... but then you could have.......

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Thu 27/10/2005 17:49

Gamma Delta Epsilm but probably wont get to Omega

quote"squid"that was tropical storm alpha that drenched Hati and the nxt one will be called beta they will go through the greek alphabet because they have run out of names for the season

squid · Unread post by **squid** » Sat 29/10/2005 10:08

bloddy yankies lol just going by what they said

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Sat 29/10/2005 12:06

Back in NZ

after a short visit to USA.

It's noticeable how clean our skies are here.
A lot of haze (pollution) over there especially around LA where visibility on one day was down to about 2km in fine weather.

Plan to return to USA next April or May to STORM CHASE

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Sat 29/10/2005 22:47

JohnGaul
NZTS

Welcome back.
I suspose LA's pollution in comparison makes ChCh look clean and green on a smoggy day here

I see Beta is upgraded to Hurricane now, they must be getting sick of them in that part of the world

squid · Unread post by **squid** » Sun 30/10/2005 10:59

yes another hurricane here we go again could go to a cat 3 b4 land fall this one has a small eye aswell only 10NM across

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Sun 30/10/2005 12:08

see Beta is upgraded to Hurricane now, they must be getting sick of them in that part of the world

Yes.

I met a lady at Virginia Beach who told me her and her Family had moved to Florida but only lasted a year there as on three occasions they were forced to evacuate due to Hurricanes. Their house was never damaged but the move each time was very costly.

squid · Unread post by **squid** » Sun 30/10/2005 22:15

beta is now a cat 3 a small but strong storm

squid · Unread post by **squid** » Mon 31/10/2005 09:59

beta made landfall as a stong cat 2 storm and soon will be downgraded to a tropical storm well another one bites the dust

Weatherlawyer · Unread post by **Weatherlawyer** » Sun 06/11/2005 14:42

I have noticed that during the North Atlantic hurricane season, whenever we in the UK have unusually warm, muggy weather -especially when preceded by mists, that is when there are hurricanes threatening the northern Caribbian islands and the USA.

Do any here have records of mists and warm muggy weather for the dates of those hurricanes or cylones elsewhere?