Floydbuster

Shame there is no Belize radar.

How is this not a tropical storm? Was recon out today? Did I miss it?

How can the models be showing such a dead pattern?

15 years ago at this very minute, tracking Katrina.

What the hell is wrong with the genesis on these models?

Yeah. I have a really powerful memory. Not a 100% photographic memory, but good enough to where I remember trivial things. I remember in 2001 I was 13 years old and ran to my father and said "Michelle's pressure plummeted all day" and he was like "Oh my God, who is Michelle?" and when I told him the hurricane he was like "You scared me, moron. I thought you were talking about a fu*king person!" I remember staying home "sick" from school in 2002 for Hurricane Lili, expected to be a high-end Cat 4 into the mid-Louisiana coast. I was in Jr. High and basically took a day off. The storm weakened so fast, I remember watching Jeff Morrow on TWC in New Iberia with a 90 mph gust. I slept the rest of the day until the afternoon. 2003 was decent. I remember watching Erika race across the Gulf and that was around the time of the 2003 Blackout. I recall our TV always being on The Weather Channel or the Food Network to watch Emeril during the Summer of 2003. I know I felt like crap during Hurricane Florence, had a bad cough and sore throat. I had a bad tooth pulled October 8th that year, two days before Cat 5 Michael, which coincidentally struck 72 hrs before my 30th birthday, and shares my name.

I always look back at hurricane seasons and wonder which ones were "memorable" to me personally. 2004 was amazing. Like watching "The Godfather". 2005 was unimaginable. Like watching "The Godfather Part II". 2006 sucked. 2007 gets glossed over, but I actually thought it was quite memorable. Dean and Felix were monsters in August and September. 2008 was amazing. On par with 2004. Bertha and Dolly in July, Gustav in August, Ike in September, Omar in October, Paloma in November. Doesn't get the credit it deserves because the landfalls were underwhelming. 2009 sucked. Then we had three years in a row (2010,2011,2012) which were EXTREMELY active...but I thought sucked. Hurricane Igor was retired in 2010 and I barely remember tracking it. Hurricane Irene in 2011 was exciting to track for about 2 hours. You already heard my 2012 thoughts on Sandy not to mention vertically challenged Isaac. Then after those three crazy but also crappy years...we had silent seasons. 2013 was the quietest since 1968. 2014 I don't even remember. 2015 had Joaquin but that was an oddity and later in the year. 2016 had Matthew but other than that, not too memorable. So, basically, with the exception of 2008, we had about six slow boring hurricane seasons, and then four busier but not that impressive seasons. JB referred to 2010 as the "gentle giant". 2017 felt VERY much like 2004. 2018 was made memorable by Florence and Michael. 2019, Dorian was pretty remarkable despite an otherwise mellow year. 2020 feels alot like 2004/2005/2008/2017. Many storms, many landfalls, Memorable.

Another thing that makes me hate Sandy is the way it affected Halloween. The storm hit and cancelled almost all Halloween plans, trick or treating for kids, haunted houses, parties, ect for most of the east coast and even out here in Ohio. Ever since then, if it so much as drizzles on Halloween, some cities "cancel" it. Sandy started that crap. 2012. CRAP year.

These guys put so much hard work and effort in, I don't wanna get specific or use names. I will say one chaser in particular has shocked me how he has become a world-wide phenomenon and gets awesome footage everytime. Another chaser is fantastic and puts in hard work, but we never see anything good. A dark webcam of a wave? It's not 1958. It's a risky business in more ways than one. What is funny is that I actually feel like Jim Leonard got the best footage back in the 1980s and 1990s. I don't understand why we have such better technology and so many powerful hurricane opportunities and yet the footage often seems...boring.

I hated that storm. Wasn't a real hurricane anymore at landfall, was a media hyped event, and ended up helping the climate changers convince college girls (between drinking and sex binges) that global warming is creating superstorms and (not to get political) helped Obama win re-election. Sandy sucked all around. I'm a hot August-tropical hurricane guy. Not a polar-low snowstorm "superstorm" sharknado guy. But that's my Sandy-vent.

Anyone remember when all the computer models didn't show a single Atlantic storm through the end of August?

Next is caffeine.

I actually quit smoking cigarettes cold turkey October 12th of last year. Almost 10 months now. Of course had I known how 2020 would go...I would've smoked an extra year.

Hurricane history in the making.

Higher background pressures due to the high?

I know. Everything was completely professional and fine until our moderator Liz Warren went all crazy on pronouns like a college girl.

Oh good lord. Now hurricanes are gender neutral. Hurricane Pat. There, feel better, Mappy?

I can't believe these kids on other forums. We have an organizing 75 mph hurricane and they're acting like it's not bad because it hasn't exploded into a Cat 5 yet. This is what happened when you're born into a post-Katrina world, believing every storm reaches 175 mph.

The EURO shows a hurricane barreling towards the Bahamas by Sept 3rd.

I was thinking the same thing. I was watching the long-range Tallahassee radar and I swear I saw the center racing towards the panhandle.

Anyone see the ICON makes Laura 225 mph at landfall?

Wow, the NHC is talking about how Marco may dissipate without ever making "landfall". Crazy.

The media is gonna be premature in their pants over this. Hopefully it's not as bad as it looks like it might be.