Hurricane Season 2006 #1

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UPDATED: 8:45 am EDT, June 9, 2006
FIRST NAMED STORM ON THE WAY? IT'S POSSIBLE

The NHC is talking more about the possibility of tropical cyclone formation in or near the NW Caribbean Sea. We have a large area of showers and thunderstorms in the region and it has persisted for several days. Most of the global computer models develop this system and bring it northward in to the Gulf of Mexico. Whether or not this happens and how strong it will get are questions that cannot be answered right now. The good news is that it is only early June and environmental conditions are not conducive for a powerful hurricane to form out of this. Let's hope that remains the case- as we know, anything can happen. But the data right now indicates a slowly developing low pressure area that could become a tropical storm over time. Beyond that, we will just have to sit back and wait. I will post more here later this afternoon.

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Tropische depressie op weg naar Florida

Boven het noordwesten van de Caribische Zee is de eerste tropische depressie van dit jaar tot ontwikkeling gekomen. Weerkundigen waarschuwen voor zware buien en overstromingen in delen van Cuba, de Kaaimaneilanden en het westen van Florida. De depressie ontwikkelt zich de komende uren mogelijk tot een tropische storm.
Vorig jaar werd het gebied geteisterd door hevige orkanen, die meer dan duizend levens eisten en voor grote schade zorgden. Ook voor 2006 is een zwaar orkaanseizoen voorspeld.

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Bron : NSNBC
First tropical depression of ’06 heads for Fla.

Weather system expected to be first named storm of hurricane season

The first tropical depression of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane system could make landfall near Florida.
MIAMI - A tropical depression in the Caribbean headed toward Florida on Saturday and was expected to become the first named storm of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season.

The depression formed earlier in the day, nine days after the official start of the season, but the poorly organized system was not expected to become a hurricane, according to the National Hurricane Center.

“It will be relatively weak in terms of wind, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to be weak in terms of rainfall,” senior hurricane specialist Stacy Stewart said.

The system, which had maximum sustained wind near 35 mph, would be named Alberto if it reaches the 39 mph threshold for a tropical storm.

At 11 p.m. EDT, the depression was centered over the Eastern Gulf of Mexico about 290 miles west southwest of Key West, Fla., or about 440 miles south of Apalachicola, Fla., forecasters said. It was moving north-northwest near 9 mph.

The hurricane center recommended tropical storm warnings for the Cuban provinces of Pinar Del Rio and the Isle of Youth.
Over the next three days, the system is expected to move through the Yucatan Channel into the southeastern Gulf of Mexico, then toward Florida where it could make landfall Monday or Tuesday somewhere between South Florida and the western tip of the Panhandle, forecasters said.

The depression’s outer rainbands stretched Saturday to the southern tip of Florida, and heavy rain was forecast over the state’s Gulf Coast and the Florida Keys through Monday.

'The media overplays this'
State officials pleaded with residents to update their hurricane preparedness plans but most shrugged at the news.

“The media overplays this, they get people very scared,” said Tim Roberts, a Fort Lauderdale condo owner who was visiting Tallahassee. “Sure, when the time comes to be alarmed, yes, but don’t make more out of it until it’s time.”

Scientists predict the 2006 season could produce up to 16 named storms, six of them major hurricanes.

Last year’s hurricane season was the busiest and most destructive in recorded history. Hurricane Katrina alone devastated Louisiana and Mississippi and was blamed for more than 1,570 deaths in Louisiana alone.

Mike Martino lost his Navarre Beach home twice in the past two hurricane seasons — first to Hurricane Ivan in 2004, and never got to move into a new home built on the same lot because Hurricane Dennis wiped it out in 2005. Instead of rebuilding again, he moved to the mainland.

Martino, who rents kayaks, bikes and surfboards out of his store in Navarre Beach, worried that the weather would do more economic damage than property damage.

“I know that we have weather coming, so I can’t have weekly rentals, it’s all going to have to be done by the day,” he said.

Last year's season was busiest ever
The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the busiest in 154 years of storm tracking, with records set for the number of named storms (28) and hurricanes (15). Forecasters used up their list of 21 proper names (beginning with Arlene and ending with Wilma) and had to use the Greek alphabet to name storms for the first time.

Meteorologists have said the Atlantic is not as warm as it was at this time in 2005, meaning potential storms would have less of the energy needed to develop into hurricanes.

Atlantic hurricane seasons were relatively mild from the 1970s through 1994. Since then, all but two years have been above normal. Experts say the ocean is in the midst of a 20-year-cycle that will continue to bring strong storms.

From 1995 to 2005, the Atlantic season averaged 15 named storms, just over eight named hurricanes and four major hurricanes, according to the hurricane center. From 1971 to 1994, there were an average of 8.5 named storms, five hurricanes and just over one major hurricane. The Atlantic hurricane season ends Nov. 30.

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Op maandag 12 juni 2006 16:40 schreef SpeedyGJ het volgende:
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