South Atlantic's First-Ever Hurricane

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Sun 28/03/2004 16:40

http://xtramsn.co.nz/news/0,,3888-3212986,00.html

More climatic changes!

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Sun 28/03/2004 17:03

Yes, I heard about that one

What's it going to be called
"Hurricane Abraham" oor TC Eve???

JohnGaul
NZTS

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Sun 28/03/2004 23:12

I liked the way the Brazialian Weather Agency said that the American Hurricane Center was a bit hasty in saying it was a Hurricane instead of a Tropical Cyclone.
What's the difference ???????????????????????????

JohnGaul
NZTS

TropicalWxWatcher · Mon 29/03/2004 13:49

The Brazil met service has some issues. The National Hurricane Center was telling them that they were dealing with a purely tropical system for days. Brazil didn't listen and continued to say that it was extratropical (obviously wasn't) and that the max winds were 50MPH. Well, 200 homes have been destroyed, 2,000 damaged and SO FAR there have been 3 fatalities. Five fisherman are still missing. An unofficial observation had a 93MPH wind gust. This was clearly a Cat 1 hurricane (on the saffir-simpson scale).

Oh and btw, I wouldn't call this a sign of major climate change. These things are bound to happen at some point. We only started looking at the SATL with sat images in the 1960s. 40 years is nothing in terms of climatology.

drdisk · Unread post by **drdisk** » Sat 17/04/2004 12:58

For those who may be interested in Further study of this unusual event, I have gathered a lot of data, information and discussion together at http://www.drdisk.com.hk/aldonca.htm where you can feel the excitement and amazement building as the experts realised they had a once-in-a-lifetime event on their hands.