#Tropical Depression Harvey

[weatherdingus]

2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season Summary

Welcome back to Rowan's Meteo Corner and the third Annual Atlantic Hurricane Season Summary! If you see this post somewhere else that's because this is the first year that I'm cross posting this to Threads and technically Instagram as well. I won't plug, but if you see it, it's probably me.

Disclamers: This is posted the DAY AFTER THE END OF HURRICANE SEASON and off season storms do exist, so a storm could possibly form before the end of the year and be counted as a 2024 Atlantic Storm. Also, this are unofficial cost estimates coming from early surveys, so things may change.

With that, have some delicious data!

ACE (Accumulated Cyclone Energy) Score: ~161.6 units (Extremely Active)

This is the highest ACE score since 2020, which had an ACE score of ~180.4,

This is also the 4th year in the 2020's with an above average ACE score (2021 and 2023 were considered "above normal" and as previously stated 2020 was considered "extremely active").

For those who don't know ACE is calculated by adding or summing together the squares of the maximum sustained velocity of all storms that are at least tropical storm strength at the recorded six hour intervals, then divide that by 10,000 to make it less complicated (definition from the National Hurricane Center butchered by your local dingus).

Major Hurricanes (anything with 1 minute sustained winds of over 111 mph or 178 km/h: 5 (Beryl, Helene, Kirk, Milton, Rafael)

We'll get more into the nitty gritty of some of these storms in my record/history section!

Hurricanes (anything with 1 minute sustained winds of over 74 mph or 119 km/h): 11

Named Storms: 18

Depressions: 18

One tropical disturbance was given the title of Potential Tropical Cyclone 8 in mid-September, but never formed into a storm or depression. It dissapated off the East Coast and will forever be known as PTC 8, rest in wind sheer little guy.

This was the latest starting Atlantic Hurricane Season since 2014, with the first storm, Tropical Storm Alberto, forming on June 19th.

This is also the first storm to feature two Catagory 5 Hurricanes since 2019 with Hurricanes Dorian and Lorenzo.

Current (December 1st, 2024) damage estimates: > $222 billion USD (2024)

If these estimates hold true, that would place this as the second costliest Atlantic Hurricane Season, overtaking the legendary 2005 season coming in at $172.3 Billion.

STORM INFO:

Strongest Storm (Barometric Pressure): Hurricane Milton (897 mbar)

Strongest Storm (Wind Speed): Hurricane Milton (180 mph/285 km/h 1 minute sustained)

Longest Lasting Storm: Hurricane Beryl (10.5 days)

Crossover Storms: None

Number of Storms Your Local Weather Dingus Weathered: One (Hurricane Francine)

RECORDS AND HISTORY:

Hurricane Beryl became the earliest forming Catagory 5 storm in the Basin, gaining that status on July 2nd and beating out 2005's Hurricane Emily which gained Catagory 5 status on July 16th.

Hurricane Milton attained the lowest recorded pressure in the Atlantic Basin in almost 20 years, becoming the 2nd most intense Hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico behind Hurricane Rita (895 mbar) and the 5th most intense in the Basin behind Rite, Labor Day 1935 (892 mbar), Gilbert (888 mbar), and my beloved Wilma (882 mbar).

Hurricane Milton allowed the Atlantic to snag the storm with the lowest pressure in the world for 2024, for the first time since 2017 with Hurricane Maria. Is this important, no, but it's still a very interesting fact to me.

Hurricane Helene dropped record amounts of rain in North Carolina, Georgia, and is currently estimated to have caused ~$120 Billion in damages. If these estimates hold true, that puts Helene as the 3rd costliest Atlantic Hurricane behind Harvey and Katrina (both are tied for first, so is Helene technically 2nd?) at $125 Billion.

CW: Discussions of death tolls, nothing specific, but still I wanted to put a warning.

I'm not doing death toll facts both out of respect for the dead (I'm still on the fence about some of my jokes, but jokes are the Gen Z way) and for the fact that they're always changing. This was one of the deadliest seasons in recent history and every person lost, counted or not, will be gravely missed

RAAA, you hear that lord, I did it! Now I can finally lay down and die! (Trail to Oregon reference)

Please take this time to see if you can afford to donate to relef efforts in North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. If you have money, time, food, or supplies that you're able to spare, please see if it can be donated, especially as it starts getting colder.

Next Year's naming list starts June 1st with the name Andrea.

Goodnight Atlantic, rest well and please give us a break, I beg, we cannot take this anymore.

[heybaetae]

pls be safe! i know even if ur not hit directly, those tropical storms/depressions are no joke (ie: harvey) but thats on the extreme side when it stayed put for days but still better to be prepared than not. i think im just triggered by rain now ;-;

thanks! i think my specific region should be okay, but it's definitely expected to effect people closer to the coast. luckily i'm far enough inland for it to be mostly safe and selfishly...i like rain lol. but i'm hoping it passes quickly!

[i-am-agony]

@TropicalDeppressionHarvey

Please cancel school on Friday I've been here since the 16th and already have so much homework and so many tests please I beg of you

[shatteredmirrors-and-lace23]

My family’s version of Hurricane/Tropical Storm prepping

Dad: -casually from the living room, watching weather channel-: Hey....do we have waters?

Me -on laptop, sitting next to him-: Yup, the 3 cases we brought in June

Dad: Sandbags?

Me: Yup from last year, and they’re giving out more tomorrow

Dad: Cool, cool....Food, first aid kid?

Me: Yup

Dad: Flashlights and candles?

Me: Yup

Dad: Extra gas for the truck?

Me: Yup

Dad: the tubes that we use for the river?

Me: Yup

Dad:

[yahoo201027]

Current Threat Levels over at yahoo201027 HQ following the Revival of Tropical Depression Harvey, posing a threat to the area over the weekend.

[thebeastisunleashed]

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[sciencespies]

Out of Names, National Hurricane Center Calls New Storms by Greek Letters

https://sciencespies.com/news/out-of-names-national-hurricane-center-calls-new-storms-by-greek-letters/

Out of Names, National Hurricane Center Calls New Storms by Greek Letters

Last Friday, Tropical Storm Wilfred formed in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. Each year the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) sets a total of 21 alphabetical names for each hurricane season, with each name used only once every six years. Storms are never named using the uncommon letters Q, U, X, Y and Z, so Wilfred is the last planned storm name for the 2020 hurricane season. But the peak of hurricane season has only just passed, and two new tropical storms have already formed.

The pair of new storms now go by the Greek letters Alpha and Beta. The first formed briefly by Portugal, and the second made landfall in Texas on Monday night. New storms will be named using Greek letters for the rest of hurricane season, which lasts through November. This season is only the second time that all alphabetic names have been used up—the last time was in 2005.

With the naming of Subtropical Storm #Alpha, we’ve officially entered the Greek Alphabet for named Atlantic storms this year. We’ve made it as far as Zeta one time on record, in 2005.

Visit https://t.co/meemB5uHAR for the latest. pic.twitter.com/B4TO7JL1Kv

— National Weather Service (@NWS) September 18, 2020

As Oliver Whang reports for National Geographic, there isn’t any fanfare at the National Hurricane Center headquarters when a storm’s name is assigned. When a storm’s average wind speed passes 45 miles per hour for a day, it’s designated a tropical storm and gets a name. Above 75 miles per hour, the storm is a hurricane.

A name is “just the natural next step,” says deputy director of the NHC Edward Rappaport to National Geographic. “There’s no shouting from the rooftops.”

The last time the Atlantic saw a storm named Alpha was October 22, 2005, which makes this hurricane season about a month ahead, Matthew Cappucci reports for the Washington Post. This year’s Tropical Storm Alpha was a relatively small storm, just 50 miles wide with maximum windspeeds at about 50 miles per hour.

Tropical Storm Beta made landfall in Texas on Monday night, Doyle Rice reports for USA Today. Louisiana and 29 counties in Texas declared disasters to manage the aftermath of the storm. Beta became the ninth named storm to make landfall on the continental United States this year, matching a record set in 1916, Chris Dolce writes for Weather.com.

By Tuesday afternoon, the NHC downgraded Beta to a tropical depression, but it still poses flood risks, Bill Chappell reports for NPR.

Wilfred, Alpha and Beta all formed on September 18—the last time three storms formed on the same day was in August of 1893, per Weather. This September has had ten named storms so far, another record-breaking month. The most recent busiest Septembers—in 2002, 2007 and 2010—had only eight named storms.

The current system for naming Atlantic storms was established in 1979. The WMO established six lists of 21 names, so that each list is repeated on the seventh year. The names alternate between traditionally men’s and women’s names. When a storm is particularly damaging, it is stricken from the list and replaced with a new name, as happened with 89 storms, including 1985’s Gloria, 2005’s Katrina, and 2017’s Harvey, Irma and Maria.

The WMO doesn’t allow replacement names to come from staff members, family members or friends. “It’s just taken from a generic list of names of a particular letter,” Rappaport tells National Geographic.

When the 22nd storm formed in 2005, the WMO chose the 24 letters of the Greek alphabet as the next storm names. That year, NHC named six storms for Greek letters, ending with Zeta on December 30.

NOAA predicted an active hurricane season in May, Alex Fox reported for Smithsonian magazine at the time. In August, NOAA predicted between 19 and 25 total named storms for the season. Contributing factors include a La Niña climate event that cools the Pacific Ocean and warms the Atlantic, fueling storms, as well as climate change.

Hurricane and tropical storm names have been useful both for keeping records of the season, and for raising public awareness.

“Giving it a name does call a greater attention to the system than it would have had otherwise,” Rappaport tells National Geographic. This is the fifth year in a row with an unusually active hurricane season, and perhaps the use of Greek letters as storm names will bring attention to the fact that something’s amiss.

#News

[kittennovak]

Just a heads up for all of my friends with me on the Texas coast. The wave has been upgraded to a Tropical Depression. Apparently it's moving decently and hitting pretty westerly down the coast, so it's more of a rain phenomenon than winds. 2-4 inches expected further inland, 6-10 closer to the actual coast. There's even a chance it'll get upgraded to a Tropical Storm before it officially hits. I know it's going to bring PTSD from Harvey and Imelda, but it's not supposed to be anything like those storms. Some of the weather/news people are going to try to rub it in that they were "only" Tropical Storms as well. There's a huge difference though: we don't have a high pressure system sitting above us to prevent movement. Which means it's going to plough forward and keep going, not sit and spin. Try to keep that in mind.

[caramara3]

Update:

This flooding is worse than Harvey. Keep in mind that Harvey was a HURRICANE.

Imelda is a tropical depression that has my complex currently in knee deep water.

I already had to move my car onto higher ground.

This shit is unreal

[oseokohrhythm-blog]

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[tooltrooperphotography]

Aft 8-31 Tropical Update

Aft 8-31 Tropical Update

Harvey is moving off to the NE, and will dissipate in the trough that picked it up soon. The aftermath is still heartbreaking and our continued prayers go out to the ones affected.

The area I wrote about last night is now on the NHC radar, as you can see in the graphics above in the Bay of Campeche (BOC). Strengthening, if any, will be slow to form however interests along the Texas and…

[meteorologistaustenlonek]

Bit breezy in the Mid-South Thursday evening as Tropical Depression Harvey moves through. Stay tuned to @WREG @3onyourside for more details as the remnants of this historic storm travel across the area in the next day.  #WREG #WeatherExpert #AMSMeteorologist #AMSStationScientist @AOnek_WREG3 meteorologistaustenlonek.tumblr.com http://www.instagram.com/aonekwreg3 http://www.facebook.com/austenonekwreg http://www.periscope.tv/AOnek_WREG3 soundcloud.com/austen-onek-wreg-meteorologist twitter.com - Austen L. Onek WREG (@AOnek_WREG3) | Twitter

[wxxv-tv]

Self-serve sand operations in Gulfport

With the threatening weather moving in over the next several days from Tropical Depression Harvey, The City of Gulfport will place sand at the following locations by noon tomorrow, August 24, 2017: 1. Orange Grove Community Center on Dedeaux Road 2. 42nd Ave at the Firestation 3. The intersection of Hewes Avenue and Glover Street Sand, bags, and shovels will be available at these locations. The…

[bilgitorbasi-blog]

Hurricane watch issued for Texas as Harvey re-forms; tremendous rainfall possible

Hurricane watch issued for Texas as Harvey re-forms; tremendous rainfall possible

The weather system previously known as Tropical Storm Harvey has begun to re-organize over the Gulf of Mexico and is expected to slam into Texas’s coast Friday, unloading dangerous amounts of rain. The National Hurricane Center said in its 11 a.m. update Wednesday that Harvey re-attained tropical depression status and is expecting it to strengthen into a tropical storm before the day ends. The…

[meteorologistjoecioffi]

TROPICAL DEPRESSION HARVEY FORMS

TROPICAL DEPRESSION HARVEY FORMS

TROPICAL DEPRESSION HARVEY FORMS

  TROPICAL DEPRESSION HARVEY FORMS HURRICANE & STORM SURGE WATCHES POSTED

An Air Force plane this morning found winds of 35 to 40 knots at flight level and a closed circulation which means that Tropical Depression Harvey has reformed in the Gulf of Mexico and is likely to strengthen to a tropical storm later today or tonight. Convection continues to increase and…

[ms-cellanies]

The tropical storm, Imelda, has dumped 43 inches of rain in Hasting, TX.  The National Hurricane Center has said winds are reaching 48 mph but the rain is going to be the problem.  Some of the same areas in Houston that experienced flooding a couple of years ago are having flooding now.

You can keep up to date on The Weather Channel as well as at the National Hurricane Center (NHC).  Latest NHC update here:  https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCUAT1+shtml/171827.shtml