2008 Atlantic hurricane season

maquiladora

Well, the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season is starting soon, June 1st.

The latest prediction from the NOAA yesterday called for an above average season with 12-16 named storms, 6-9 hurricanes and 2-5 major hurricanes.

Arthur will be the first name of this season.

Danno

Oh great, another excuse to hike the Diesel prices. :rolleyes:

What are the SSTs like between Africa and the Carribean?

Snowbie

Danno wrote: »

Oh great, another excuse to hike the Diesel prices. :rolleyes:

What are the SSTs like between Africa and the Carribean?

Near favourable @26c

armour87

Do you any of you think this would have an effect on flights to the US?

Danno

No effects. Flight paths actually run closer to Greenland.

Deep Easterly

maquiladora wrote: »

Well, the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season is starting soon, June 1st.

The latest prediction from the NOAA yesterday called for an above average season with 12-16 named storms, 6-9 hurricanes and 2-5 major hurricanes.

Arthur will be the first name of this season.

If i can recal correctly, last year they were predicting a pretty major Atlantic hurricane season for 2007, and that turned out to be a bit of a boob. Hope they are right this time, would love to experience a "Debbie" type storm before I am laid in the cold ground

Neamhshuntasach

I'll be in Flordia, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean for 3 months of the hurricane season this year so i'm bound to be caught up in one.....again.

I'll post up pictures.

Danno

Geez, be careful out there lad!

On another note, I wonder is the current vortex over Biscay going to have any effect on the season as the NE trade winds off Portugal will be disrupted by it.

tomcosgrave

We have our first system of the 2008 Hurricane Season as of this evening, Irish time.

The Eastern Pacific had it's first storm, Alma, of the 2008 season during the week and this dissipated soon after it formed over Central America - some of its sub-systems have come out in the Western Carribean and turned into Tropical Depression Arthur. It has already hit Central America again, and will weaken, but will cross into the Bay of Campeche, where it will probably strengthen.

tomcosgrave

Well, the East Pacific has been busy in the last 10 days or so, with Hurricane Boris and two tropical storms, one still being active, (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/#BORIS and http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/#DOUGLAS), but the Atlantic has been quiet, at least until now.

We have TD Two (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/#TWO) which came off the coast of Africa already organised (!) and another belt of activity in the Eastern Carribean that looks like it will dissipate again.

maquiladora

tomcosgrave wrote: »

We have TD Two (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/#TWO) which came off the coast of Africa already organised (!) and another belt of activity in the Eastern Carribean that looks like it will dissipate again.

TD Two should be a TS within the next 24 hrs.

tomcosgrave

Now TS Bertha and headed northwest. NOAA said "hurricane in 5 days" yesterday, but now they say colder water and wind shear in the later part of the forecast period might be a factor.