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'11 Hurricane season predictions

  • 30-07-2011 11:07am
    #1
    TheMilkyPirate
    Registered Users Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭


    Could be a bit of fun :)

    Make your predictions of each question, Each correct prediction earns 5 points, Most points wins a packet of meanies!


    First named hurricane: Gert
    Last named hurricane: Ophelia
    Total number of hurricanes: 9
    Major hurricanes (CAT3 or higher): 3
    Highest wind speed (1min): 162mph
    Total number of named storms: 17
    CAT 5 Hurricane?: Yes

    Overdue a CAT5 i think.


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  • #2
    maquiladora
    Registered Users Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    First named hurricane: Emily
    Last named hurricane: Philippe
    Total number of hurricanes: 8
    Major hurricanes (CAT3 or higher): 4
    Highest wind speed (1min): 160mph
    Total number of named storms: 16
    CAT 5 Hurricane?: Yes


  • #3
    thetonynator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,234 ✭✭✭thetonynator


    First named hurricane: Emily
    Last named hurricane: Ophelia
    Total number of hurricanes: 4
    Major hurricanes (CAT3 or higher): 1
    Highest wind speed (1min): 152mph
    Total number of named storms: 14
    CAT 5 Hurricane?: No


  • #4
    delw
    Registered Users Posts: 2,655 ✭✭✭delw


    First named hurricane:Franklin
    Last named hurricane: Philippe
    Total number of hurricanes: 7
    Major hurricanes (CAT3 or higher): 3
    Highest wind speed (1min): 165mph
    Total number of named storms: 16
    CAT 5 Hurricane?:yes


  • #5
    elvis99
    Registered Users Posts: 173 ✭✭elvis99


    First named hurricane: Gert
    Last named hurricane: Rina
    Total number of hurricanes: 8
    Major hurricanes (CAT3 or higher): 3
    Highest wind speed (1min): 155mph
    Total number of named storms: 19
    CAT 5 Hurricane?: Yes


  • #6
    dexter647
    Registered Users Posts: 1,217 ✭✭✭dexter647


    First named hurricane:Emily
    Last named hurricane: Sean
    Total number of hurricanes: 9
    Major hurricanes (CAT3 or higher): 5
    Highest wind speed (1min): 163mph
    Total number of named storms: 17
    CAT 5 Hurricane?:yes


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  • #7
    TheMilkyPirate
    Registered Users Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭TheMilkyPirate


    We'll stop taking entries after Invest 91 is named, Seems fair enough. Should be in the next 24-48 hours.


  • #8
    fizzycyst
    Closed Accounts Posts: 399 ✭✭fizzycyst


    First named hurricane: Gert
    Last named hurricane: Rina
    Total number of hurricanes: 9
    Major hurricanes (CAT3 or higher): 4
    Highest wind speed (1min): 163mph
    Total number of named storms: 20
    CAT 5 Hurricane?: Yes


  • #9
    Lumi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,466 ✭✭✭Lumi


    First named hurricane: Emily
    Last named hurricane: Philippe
    Total number of hurricanes: 12
    Major hurricanes (CAT3 or higher): 5
    Highest wind speed (1min): 161mph
    Total number of named storms: 18
    CAT 5 Hurricane?: Yes


  • #10
    maquiladora
    Registered Users Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    Fionagus wrote: »
    First named hurricane: Emily
    Last named hurricane: Philippe
    Total number of hurricanes: 12
    Major hurricanes (CAT3 or higher): 5
    Highest wind speed (1min): 161mph
    Total number of named storms: 18
    CAT 5 Hurricane?: No

    Hi Fiona. I think you forgot to change the last one to "Yes". If you are going for highest wind speed of 161mph then that would mean Cat 5. :)


  • #11
    Lumi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,466 ✭✭✭Lumi


    maquiladora wrote: »
    Hi Fiona. I think you forgot to change the last one to "Yes". If you are going for highest wind speed of 161mph then that would mean Cat 5. :)
    Cheers :D Still asleep!!


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  • #12
    thetonynator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,234 ✭✭✭thetonynator


    Emily named so presumably closed?

    She is forecast to be a hurricane before hitting Florida at the moment.


  • #13
    snowstreams
    Registered Users Posts: 1,315 ✭✭✭snowstreams


    First named hurricane: Franklin
    Last named hurricane: Philippe
    Total number of hurricanes: 6
    Major hurricanes (CAT3 or higher): 3
    Highest wind speed (1min): 157mph
    Total number of named storms: 16
    CAT 5 Hurricane?: yes

    Im late entering, so im going to have to say that Emily doesnt become a hurricane!


  • #14
    TheMilkyPirate
    Registered Users Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭TheMilkyPirate


    Yep, Emily named so entries closed. We'll take snowstreams entry as you weren't that late and i'm a nice chap :pac:


  • #15
    snowstreams
    Registered Users Posts: 1,315 ✭✭✭snowstreams


    Is it time to count up the scores now?
    Turned out to be an active season but it didn't seem to have very many strong systems.


  • #16
    TheMilkyPirate
    Registered Users Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭TheMilkyPirate


    snowstreams wrote: »
    Is it time to count up the scores now?
    Turned out to be an active season but it didn't seem to have very many strong systems.

    I've been meaning to do it for the last few days, I think you just gave me the kick start i needed!

    Winner of the meanies on the way!


  • #17
    TheMilkyPirate
    Registered Users Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭TheMilkyPirate


    And the winner is..........

    1st elvis99 - 15pts
    J2nd snowstreams - 10pts
    J2nd thetonynator - 10pts
    J3rd baraca - 5pts
    J3rd delw - 5pts
    J3rd fizzycyst - 5pts

    Congratulations elvis99! A lovely fresh pack of meanies is on the way to you. The two second place finishers will each recieve a bottle of cadet.


  • #18
    WolfeIRE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,667 ✭✭✭WolfeIRE


    After seven hurricanes and 12 other named storms causing several billion dollars of damage, the 2011 North Atlantic hurricane season has now officially come to an end.
    It has been an unusual season in many respects. Firstly, the 19 named storms marks the joint second highest number based on records since 1944*. The average is about 11.
    The season has also been characterised by a high number of relatively short-lived storms – with seven of the 12 tropical storms lasting just two days or less. None of the first eight storms of the season developed into hurricanes – something unprecedented in the records.
    Joanne Camp, a long-range hurricane forecaster at the Met Office, explained that having so many short-lived and relatively weak tropical storms was a notable feature of the season: “If you look at the long-term record, this is unusual – but it has been an increasing trend over recent years.
    “This is almost certainly due to the improvement of technology, such as satellites, which allows us to observe developments over the North Atlantic in ever greater detail. This means we are now identifying storms that could previously have gone undetected.”


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  • #19
    thetonynator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,234 ✭✭✭thetonynator


    Hell yeah! 1st podium finish in a competition ever!! I think! :P


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