Forum:2008 Atlantic hurricane season

January
Ahhhhh Happy New Years fellow hurricane Wikians. It's been a really hectic last year (especially August and September), but tis a new year. Along with the new year (2008), I provide notable facts about our next name list:


 * Since naming began for male/female names in 1979, this is the only names list where every year it was used, an "L" storm was named (Lili until this year).
 * This names list always produces at least 12 named storms. Excluding storms that went un-named since 1950, 41 years had lesser activity, including a streak from 1979-1995, when the only "L" storms were ones using this list.
 * The streak of seasons with no "B" hurricanes was not broken in 2007. The last B hurricane was 99's Bret.
 * Up until this season, "Arthur" has never been used for a hurricane for four seasons straight.
 * This is the only recent names list (since 79) with no Category 5s.

Well, let's hope for a year with few, if hopefully no, deaths or damages. Jake52 My talk 09:34, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

AoI: NE of the Antilles
Whew, first AoI of the year! Anyway, the trough that has been hanging around near 25N for the past couple days has developed a very broad surface low. It's actually quite similar to Olga's origins. Anyway, the CMC, NOGAPS and UKMET have actually been forecasting something to form from this. I know, it's January, but you never know, right? 71.7.210.87 01:56, 10 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Now it's gone again. I know it's the Atlantic, but not all AoIs form into invests. WeatherROCKS89 05:04, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

AoI: Middle of nowhere
There is a vicious-looking low in the central atlantic. It's has already burrowed down to the surface, it is completely cut off from any fronts and it has a high to the west so it won't get ripped apart. I think it has a decent chance of subtropical/tropical. http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/archdat/mediterranean/sahara/ir/20080306.1500.msg2.ir.x.sahara_dust.x.jpg http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/sat-bin/display10.cgi?SIZE=full&PHOT=yes&AREA=mediterranean/sahara&PROD=ir&TYPE=ssmi&NAV=tropics&DISPLAY=Latest&ARCHIVE=Latest&CGI=tropics.cgi&CURRENT=20060703.1900.msg1.ir.x.sahara_dust.x.jpg&MOSAIC_SCALE=15 -Winter123 21:36, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
 * It pretty much looks like a subtropical depression, but given from the NHC discussion the info on the low, it would be a sub-tropical storm. 211.104.188.136 08:18, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
 * What does the nhc say? Anyway I'm starting to think this is non-tropical, due to the line of clouds from the jet sream to the south feeding into this. Still it's a powerful storm and worth mention. -Winter123 12:36, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
 * They say now that it does not produce gale-force winds anymore. However, it still has a minimum pressure of 1006 mb and 30~35 mph winds. 211.104.188.152 07:16, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Shear got to it. Here's the loop from peak to death. http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/htdocs_dyn/gif89/EF_45_20080307.0230.msg2.ir.x.sahara_dust.x.gif -Winter123 17:58, 8 March 2008 (UTC)