HurricaneJosh Posted March 1, 2011 Author Share Posted March 1, 2011 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. 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
am19psu Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HurricaneJosh Posted March 1, 2011 Author Share Posted March 1, 2011 Wasn't it MX's decision to retire or not? The WMO votes are usually a formality. You might be right. I thought the WMO decided it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
am19psu Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 You might be right. I thought the WMO decided it. Yeah, the WMO is ultimately who decides to retire it, but if a country wants it retired they very rarely veto. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HurricaneJosh Posted March 1, 2011 Author Share Posted March 1, 2011 Yeah, the WMO is ultimately who decides to retire it, but if a country wants it retired they very rarely veto. Ah, OK-- gotcha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floydbuster Posted March 1, 2011 Share Posted March 1, 2011 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?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmagan Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 I'll be a red tagger for this coming hurricane season. Prepare for my wrath. Congratulations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OKpowdah Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 Josh, April appetizer this year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OKpowdah Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 I'll be a red tagger for this coming hurricane season. Prepare for my wrath. Congrats!! You have grad school plans locked up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronxx Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VAwxman Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juliancolton Posted March 4, 2011 Share Posted March 4, 2011 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. Emily '05 and Gordon '94 are the only two storms I've always wished had been retired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwt Posted March 4, 2011 Share Posted March 4, 2011 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OKpowdah Posted March 4, 2011 Share Posted March 4, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juliancolton Posted March 4, 2011 Share Posted March 4, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Lizard Posted March 5, 2011 Share Posted March 5, 2011 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icebreaker5221 Posted March 6, 2011 Share Posted March 6, 2011 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. Unfortunately, it's really impossible to tell if it's a 100 or 1000 year event with the records available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrinceFrederickWx Posted March 6, 2011 Share Posted March 6, 2011 I have to agree with many here that Emily 2005 and Gordon 1994 should have been retired. I would also add Hanna 2008 to that list as well. Also, I never understood why Paloma 2008 was retired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
am19psu Posted March 6, 2011 Share Posted March 6, 2011 Hanna didn't get retired because Haiti didn't send anyone to the WMO conference. Paloma got retired because it basically destroyed two of the Cayman Islands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwt Posted March 6, 2011 Share Posted March 6, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supercane Posted March 6, 2011 Share Posted March 6, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwt Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Interesting to see we already have 90L in the bag, who'd have thought the first invest would come in early March! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juliancolton Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 If I had to guess I'd say 90L is a test invest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdrenken Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Does anyone know what this is all about? I used his FSU links for hurricane season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
am19psu Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Dr. Maue is no longer at Florida State after graduating with his PhD. Hence, his webspace is no longer being maintained. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jconsor Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Igor and Tomas were both retired - no big surprise there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSUmetstud Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Igor and Tomas were both retired - no big surprise there. Was it Canada or Bermuda who wanted Igor retired? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrinceFrederickWx Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floydbuster Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 I am most surprised about Karl's staying and Igor's going. Clearly, our "I" names have been retired a lot lately. Iris, Isidore, Isabel, Ivan, Ike and now Igor. That means only Isaac, Ingrid, and Ida have survived this last rotation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxmx Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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