Meanwhile, off the Cape Verde Islands, 98L is starting to rotate

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Meanwhile, off the Cape Verde Islands, 98L is starting to rotate

Posted: 7/23/2013 5:12:34 PM EDT

Yeah,Yeah, wake me in a week. Worth a look, Cape Verde storms can be monsters.
http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/at201398_model.html

Posted: 7/23/2013 5:29:58 PM EDT

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Yesterday's track and computer predictions had it turning north a few days away from the US but as usual they're wrong again.

Posted: 7/23/2013 7:32:40 PM EDT

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Hope it goes up the north coast or west into Mexico., I lost everything in Hurricane Ike

Posted: 7/23/2013 7:38:40 PM EDT

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Always said the tropics don't get going till the last two weeks of August and the first two weeks of September.
Were just warming up.

Posted: 7/23/2013 7:39:42 PM EDT

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These are the ones that worry me the most - long journey and then into warm water as it nears the US, lots of room to get ugly.

Posted: 7/23/2013 7:46:00 PM EDT

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Hope it goes up the north coast or west into Mexico., I lost everything in Hurricane Ike

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Although I did not lose everything,Ike did take it's pound of flesh from me.
I never in my life want to go through another hurricane in or anywhere near Houston Texas again!!!

Posted: 7/23/2013 7:57:35 PM EDT

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These are the ones that worry me the most - long journey and then into warm water as it nears the US, lots of room to get ugly.

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I might be wrong, but I think the storms that form from the waves off Cape Verde are less severe on average than the ones that form in the Caribbean. Hurricane Andrew is a counterexample, but the point is one regarding averages and not outliers.

And I'm wrong.

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

Posted: 7/23/2013 8:01:00 PM EDT

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In before we get a AGW/Climate Change chicken little freak out.

Posted: 7/23/2013 8:02:07 PM EDT

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It's a hot housing market, plenty of time to pack up and move.

Posted: 7/23/2013 8:05:17 PM EDT

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I might be wrong, but I think the storms that form from the waves off Cape Verde are less severe on average than the ones that form in the Caribbean. Hurricane Andrew is a counterexample, but the point is one regarding averages and not outliers.

And I'm wrong.

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

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These are the ones that worry me the most - long journey and then into warm water as it nears the US, lots of room to get ugly.

I might be wrong, but I think the storms that form from the waves off Cape Verde are less severe on average than the ones that form in the Caribbean. Hurricane Andrew is a counterexample, but the point is one regarding averages and not outliers.

And I'm wrong.

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

There are definitely some nasty ones that pop up in the Caribbean and get large/strong fast, but the long path gives them way too much time to organize and strengthen. Luckily many get pushed up into the Atlantic or torn apart by other storm systems, but the ones that make it through have everything in their favor.