First Hurricane of the Season?

[Squink]

SPECIAL TROPICAL DISTURBANCE STATEMENT- 950 AM EDT TUE MAY 8 2007

A NON-TROPICAL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM…CENTERED ABOUT 230 MILES
EAST-SOUTHEAST OF THE GEORGIA AND SOUTH CAROLINA COASTS…HAS BEEN
MOVING SLOWLY WESTWARD AT 5 TO 10 MPH. THIS SYSTEM IS PRODUCING
GALE-FORCE WINDS…

GOES Satellite Image

This seems a tad early, and non-tropical. Ah well, it’s probably nothin.

[ShiefferSaw]

@Squink

This seems a tad early, and non-tropical. Ah well, it’s probably nothin.

Chalk it up to global warming. I think we’re suppost to have a pretty crazy hurricane season this year. :smack:

[Tupug_Anachi]

Different type of storm. According to our weather dudes, it has a cold core rather than the warm core a hurricane would have. Also, a sub-tropical storm has much tighter, and therefore stronger, winds closer to the core. Sure looks like a good whirlygig though, don’t it?

[Mr.Moto]

Apropos to this, and in keeping with my general interest in preparedness:

How many of you have a weather radio with a feature that will trigger an audible alarm when there is a weather emergency in your area?

[ShibbOleth]

I hope this storm comes ashore and heads down here into Florida, so that it can help put out the fires and quell some of the drought problems we’re facing.

[Wile_E]

I don’t think the season officially starts until June. So if it’s out of season, is it just a storm?

[Duke_of_Rat]

@ShiefferSaw

Chalk it up to global warming. I think we’re suppost to have a pretty crazy hurricane season this year. :smack:

We were supposed to have a crazy one last year, also, and IIRC it was one of the mildest hurricane seasons in a while.

Following the intense activity of the 2005 season, forecasts predicted the 2006 season would be very active, though not as active as 2005. However, in 2006, a rapidly-forming El Niño event, combined with the pervasive presence of the Saharan Air Layer over the tropical Atlantic and a steady presence of a robust secondary high related to the Azores high centered around Bermuda, contributed to a slow season and all tropical cyclone activity ceasing after October

[Diceman]

@Duke of Rat

We were supposed to have a crazy one last year, also, and IIRC it was one of the mildest hurricane seasons in a while.

I was going to mention this. Don’t put too much faith the weather predictions.

[Ogre]

@Wile E

I don’t think the season officially starts until June. So if it’s out of season, is it just a storm?

It’s not really out of season. Summer weather patterns have already begun in the subtropics and tropics. The Hurricane Season is a pretty elastic entity.

[Patty_O_Furniture]

First named of the season: Tropical Storm Andrea.

[Tupug_Anachi]

Great! Just what we need. Some more wind to fan the fires. :rolleyes:

[Diceman]

The National Hurricane Center is calling it a “Subtropical Storm Andrea”

[MacTech]

I’m using a little app for my Mac called “OSX Planet”, it’s a virtual Earth that shows current weather, volcanic activity, earthquakes, storms and the like, i’ve got it in rectangular “map” mode, updating every 10 minutes or so

it was interesting watching Andrea form off the coast, however there are a couple storm systems i also have my eyes on, a crescent shaped storm right behind Andrea, and a rather large, disorganized storm system between South America and Africa…

[ladybug]

Damn. My coworkers and I were just talking yesterday about having a whole three weeks before Hurricane Season 2007 officially kicked off. Looks like the season started early.

[Xema]

@Duke of Rat

We were supposed to have a crazy one last year, also.

My prediction: each of the next 50 or so seasons will be predicted to have lots of tropical storm activity. Some of these indeed will.