Hurricanes

Further storms likely to develop behind Erin
All signs are starting to point at a period of increased activity beginning to occur behind Erin by next week. The GFS has been starting to show some consistency with emerging a tropical wave by around 69 hours and developing it into a moderate tropical storm. This wave is seen currently over Africa and will likely emerge sometime on Sunday. The GFS is having problems after that correctly figuring out what this wave will do. For whatever reason it has a 1001mb low developing to the north of the wave and causing a Fujiwara effect between the two, causing the tropical wave to somehow make landfall over Africa before re-emerging north of the Cape Verde islands and moving west. This is very unlikely, and it's more likely that this wave will develop south of the islands and continue west and strengthening. Beyond that the GFS is showing one heck of a wave train beginning to start up, and we have to start facing the possibility we may see numerous Cape Verde hurricanes beginning to set up.

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/CybrTeddy/comment.html?entrynum=258

A Cape Verde-type hurricane is an Atlantic hurricane that develops near the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa. The average hurricane season has about two Cape Verde-type hurricanes, which are usually the largest and most intense storms of the season because they often have plenty of warm open ocean over which to develop before encountering land. The five largest Atlantic tropical cyclones on record have been Cape Verde-type hurricanes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Verde-type_hurricane



Hurricane Ivan was a Cape Verde hurricane.

P'cola



http://www.hurricanecity.com/city/pensacola.htm

 

Bob wrote:A Cape Verde-type hurricane is an Atlantic hurricane that develops near the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa. The average hurricane season has about two Cape Verde-type hurricanes, which are usually the largest and most intense storms of the season because they often have plenty of warm open ocean over which to develop before encountering land. The five largest Atlantic tropical cyclones on record have been Cape Verde-type hurricanes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Verde-type_hurricane



Hurricane Ivan was a Cape Verde hurricane.

Wonder what's going on in Cape Verde today

boards of FL wrote:

Bob wrote:A Cape Verde-type hurricane is an Atlantic hurricane that develops near the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa. The average hurricane season has about two Cape Verde-type hurricanes, which are usually the largest and most intense storms of the season because they often have plenty of warm open ocean over which to develop before encountering land. The five largest Atlantic tropical cyclones on record have been Cape Verde-type hurricanes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Verde-type_hurricane



Hurricane Ivan was a Cape Verde hurricane.

Wonder what's going on in Cape Verde today

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Prolly having a cocktail at their Shaker Bar . . . .

The Cape Verdes are a neat place, sunny all the time, volcanic a lot like the leeward side of Hawaiian islands. It's becoming a popular place for Brits, French and Germans in sensible sandals to vacation.

Ever since Ivan and Katrina, the nervous Nellies have been waaaay over forecasting hurricanes in strength and number just to cover their tails, I suppose. As a result, nail-chewing insurance companies keep hiking rates.

Kahala wrote:The Cape Verdes are a neat place, sunny all the time, volcanic a lot like the leeward side of Hawaiian islands. It's becoming a popular place for Brits, French and Germans in sensible sandals to vacation.

Ever since Ivan and Katrina, the nervous Nellies have been waaaay over forecasting hurricanes in strength and number just to cover their tails, I suppose. As a result, nail-chewing insurance companies keep hiking rates.

They increase insurance rates because the cost and damage done has multiplied exponentially.

In decades past, insurance companies were able to spread those losses over many properties not endangered by storms. That has changed greatly and the higher the risk, the higher the insurance. Seems fair to me.

Then there are idiots like Mayor Ray Nagin or refused to acknowledge the size and intensity of Hurricane Katrina, along with Governor Blanco. They had at LEAST three full days notice, unheard of with most storms, as to where and how bad the storm was going to be. This left tens of thousands of people in the path of the storm who knew nothing about taking care of themselves and only about depending on the government. Their late warning left them stranded and helpless. Unnecessarily, that cost thousands of lives.

So in spite of accurate, forecasting the elected government officials screwed the pooch.