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Also should note that those of us who remember tracking Hurricane Bret in 1999 or Hurricane Emily in 2005 as if it were yesterday will be feeling...mighty old. :arrowhead:

I'm bothered by the fact that Bret and Emily are still on the list. OK, it hit in the middle of nowhere, but as far as I know, Bret's the only landfalling major in the USA not to be retired. And Emily had great impact in MX in two places (Yucatan and Tamaulipas)-- it almost seems rude to MX that it isn't retired.

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I'm bothered by the fact that Bret and Emily are still on the list. OK, it hit in the middle of nowhere, but as far as I know, Bret's the only landfalling major in the USA not to be retired. And Emily had great impact in MX in two places (Yucatan and Tamaulipas)-- it almost seems rude to MX that it isn't retired.

Wasn't it MX's decision to retire or not? The WMO votes are usually a formality.

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Cases for Emily's retirement stem back to 1987. Category 3 in Hispaniola, Category 3 scraping Outer Banks, Category 4 for Yucatan...I'd hate to see what impact would cause a future Hurricane Emily retirement.

As for Bret, had it struck Corpus it would've been retired no doubt. Honestly though, if a Category 4 Hurricane Bret is bearing down on Coral Gables this August...who watching the coverage will honestly be confused and say, "Wasn't this a Category 3 storm into Kenedy County, Texas twelve years ago?"

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Cases for Emily's retirement stem back to 1987. Category 3 in Hispaniola, Category 3 scraping Outer Banks, Category 4 for Yucatan...I'd hate to see what impact would cause a future Hurricane Emily retirement.

: From Playa del Carmen, on east Yucatan coast.

Highest tidal surge in history of Cape Hatteras, 10.2 ft.
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Wow I did not realize Emily was on the list again this year. That is very strange. In addition to the impacts Josh noted, it was the earliest known category 5 hurricane on record. It definitely should have been retired.

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I have to admit when I looked at Gordon 1994 I was very surprised they didn't retire, Emily to me was 50-50 in terms of the critera for retirement but then again on the other hand we've seen systems get retired for less as well...

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oh wow, I thought that Emily was retired. That's very strange. It'll be funny (well not really in the circumstances) if Emily eventually gets retired as a slow moving weak TS that produces devastating flooding, but it couldn't get retired as a category 5.

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I have to admit when I looked at Gordon 1994 I was very surprised they didn't retire, Emily to me was 50-50 in terms of the critera for retirement but then again on the other hand we've seen systems get retired for less as well...

I think if Emily had been in any other season it would have been a shoo-in for retirement... the big names simply dwarfed its significance.

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Getting some weenieism for 1938 out of my system five months before primetime.

What is the maximum realistic possible SS Cat at landfall, and assuming a large and/or rapidly weakening system, (thinking Audrey) what is the maximum realistic storm surge for Nassau/Suffolk Counties.

I'm starting to be of 2 minds about 1938, its been so long its due, or its been so long because it is so unlikely.

I'll ask an semi-related question sometime about the Kerry Emmanuel max potential graphic someday...

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Yeah I'm pretty sure in most cases Hanna would have been retired, it did a number of Haiti thats for sure. I was amazed how far south that system ended up getting, no one really thought it dip that far south and because of the shear it pretty much dumped all its rain onto Hispaniola.

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I think if Emily had been in any other season it would have been a shoo-in for retirement... the big names simply dwarfed its significance.

Mexico tends to be conservative about requesting names to be retired. As I recall, it wasn't Mexico that requested the retirement of Dean -- it was France, for its impact on Martinique.

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I'm very surprised that Alex and Karl were not retired, though I guess this would be consistent with what Supercane said earlier about Mexico being very conservative in requesting names be retired.

Was also surprised that Igor was retired- I assume Canada asked for it? I thought the impacts in Bermuda were pretty much minimal?

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I'm very surprised that Alex and Karl were not retired, though I guess this would be consistent with what Supercane said earlier about Mexico being very conservative in requesting names be retired.

Was also surprised that Igor was retired- I assume Canada asked for it? I thought the impacts in Bermuda were pretty much minimal?

Yeah, sort of surprised here also. Fortunately there weren't that many human lives lost with these hurricanes, but economic losses were probably a few billion USD with several historical records.

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