19th storm ties a record

[SoCalDem]

http://www.sptimes.com/2005/10/06/Weather/19th_storm_ties_a_rec.shtml

19th storm ties a record

St. Petersburg Times - 55 minutes ago

Tropical Storm Tammy makes landfall near Jacksonville as forecasters watch yet another low pressure system near Cuba.
By GRAHAM BRINK, Times Staff Writer
Published October 6, 2005

The 2005 hurricane season became the second busiest in history Wednesday and gave ample notice that it's far from over.As Tropical Storm Tammy washed ashore near Jacksonville on Wednesday evening, forecasters were keeping an eye on a system brewing in the southern Gulf of Mexico.Tammy, a moderate tropical storm, packed sustained winds of 50 mph and was expected to drop 3 to 5 inches of rain in parts of Georgia and the Carolinas. Widespread damage was not expected.


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"It will be a rainmaker, with a threat of damage from isolated tornadoes," said Chris Sisko, a meteorologist with the National Hurricane Center in Miami.Tammy is the 19th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, tying 1887 and 1995 for second busiest since records began in 1851. The record was set in 1933, when 21 storms formed in the Atlantic basin.

Six hurricanes have hit Florida in the past 14 months. A seventh, Hurricane Rita, brushed past the southern part of the state.The 2005 season, which ends Nov. 30, could still set the overall record. October is often a busy month during active seasons, said Stan Goldenberg, a meteorologist with the federal Hurricane Research Division."Not just the first day of October, we're talking well into October or even the end," he said.

Forecasters continue to watch a low pressure system that was near the western tip of Cuba on Wednesday night. The system appeared to be falling apart late Wednesday, though it could reorganize as it moves northeast toward Florida's west coast today, forecasters said.

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Information from the Associated Press was used in this report. Graham Brink can be reached at 727 893-8406 or [email protected]

[Tesha]

1. But don't worry; this has nothing to do with Global Climate Change.

Look, quick, over there! It's a sick bird! Bird flu! Bird Flu!

Tesha

[Bassic]

2. I too wish they would stop scaring everyone with

every god damn bug they can find.

[theHandpuppet]

3. Yep, a perfectly normal hurricane season.

Nothing to see here. Move along.

:sarcasm:

[SoCalDem]

4. Pretty soon they will have to start using more than the greek

alphabet as a back up.. They could name 2 A's 2 B's etc..

[The Roux Comes First]

5. And How About Some New Names?

Instead of stigmatizing whole swaths of the baby-naming lexicon (how many "Katrinas" do you suppose have been born in the US in the last month?) what say we start naming storms after the worst corporate greenhouse gas dischargers?

[SoCalDem]

6. They should use names that no one uses much..

or how about literaray names one season, movie star names the next..

[Bill McBlueState]

7. ooh, that's good

Hurricane Exxon, anyone?

[KamaAina]

8. Or how about after prominent repukes?

2006 Hurricane List:

Ashcroft
Bush
Cheney
DeLay
etc. etc.

edit: I forgot the Cat 5 Hammer! D'oh!

[newyawker99]

9. The Roux Comes First!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast: