Skins24 Posted December 31, 2005 Share Posted December 31, 2005 You thought this season would end? Silly you. http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT5+shtml/310245.shtml ..ZETA CONTINUES NORTHWESTWARD FAR FROM LAND WITH 50 MPH WINDS...AT 11 PM AST...0300Z...THE CENTER OF TROPICAL STORM ZETA WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 25.9 NORTH... LONGITUDE 37.5 WEST OR ABOUT 1035 MILES...1670 KM... SOUTHWEST OF THE AZORES. ZETA IS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHWEST NEAR 7 MPH... 11 KM/HR. A TURN TOWARD THE WEST-NORTHWEST IS EXPECTED ON SATURDAY. MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 50 MPH... 85 KM/HR... WITH HIGHER GUSTS. WEAKENING IS FORECAST ON SATURDAY. TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 230 MILES... 370 KM MAINLY TO THE EAST FROM THE CENTER. ESTIMATED MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE IS 1000 MB...29.53 INCHES. REPEATING THE 11 PM AST POSITION...25.9 N... 37.5 W. MOVEMENT TOWARD...NORTHWEST NEAR 7 MPH. MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS... 50 MPH. MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...1000 MB. THE NEXT ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER AT 5 AM AST. (government info for the public so no copyright stuff) Edit: If it becomes a hurricane before midnight tommorw it was be hurricane Zeta, if it becomes a hurricane after midnight it'll be hurricane Alberto - the first name in the 2006 list. If it just stays a tropical storm, it'll keep Zeta and be only the second storm to span 2 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chomerics Posted December 31, 2005 Share Posted December 31, 2005 WTF???? This HAS to be the latest a tropical storm has ever formed, hell the season ended a MONTH ago :doh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drockvb Posted December 31, 2005 Share Posted December 31, 2005 I hope this is a turn of the tide. Winter swells. SSSSSWEEEEEEEET. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted December 31, 2005 Share Posted December 31, 2005 Let me know when the get to iota. Then I'll care one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gallen5862 Posted December 31, 2005 Share Posted December 31, 2005 I heard on the news that this was the record for most named storms and record for latest storm. I can not remember which station. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Punani2 Posted December 31, 2005 Share Posted December 31, 2005 WTF???? This HAS to be the latest a tropical storm has ever formed, hell the season ended a MONTH ago :doh: I am pretty sure this is the most tropical storms in the atlantic basin since records have been kept. Possibly the latest. Let's remember records only go back 100 yrs or so. An extremely tiny segment of climate history... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skins24 Posted December 31, 2005 Author Share Posted December 31, 2005 WTF???? This HAS to be the latest a tropical storm has ever formed, hell the season ended a MONTH ago :doh: Another storm formed on Dec. 30 in 1954 so it's tied for the latest... A storm formed in March before, just over the limit of late (Dec-Feb) hurricane into early (Mar-May). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gallen5862 Posted December 31, 2005 Share Posted December 31, 2005 Thanks for the update and clarification about it being tied for the record on latest formed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chomerics Posted December 31, 2005 Share Posted December 31, 2005 I am pretty sure this is the most tropical storms in the atlantic basin since records have been kept. Possibly the latest. Let's remember records only go back 100 yrs or so. An extremely tiny segment of climate history... We broke the record in September or October I believe, but that is not saying much seeing as it's the only data we have. I was wondering if this was ALSO the latest developing named storm. It is the latest, Alice was born on the same date in 1954, but earlier in the day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:2005_Atlantic_hurricane_season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chomerics Posted December 31, 2005 Share Posted December 31, 2005 Another storm formed on Dec. 30 in 1954 so it's tied for the latest...A storm formed in March before, just over the limit of late (Dec-Feb) hurricane into early (Mar-May). Thanks, I found the info, but cross posted. Alice was earlier in the day so "technically" Zeta was the latest, but really, they are tied. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Punani2 Posted December 31, 2005 Share Posted December 31, 2005 Wonder if we will see any tropical development in Jan? It's possible... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 Wonder if we will see any tropical development in Jan? It's possible... Well Zeta hasn't given up yet. It has strengthened back into a tropical storm. Zeta Regains Tropical Storm Strength Thursday, January 05, 2006 MIAMI — The long, strange life of Zeta continued Thursday as it again strengthened into a tropical storm and could break the record for the storm that lasted the longest into January since record keeping began in 1851. Zeta, which poses no threat to land, is the last and 27th named storm in a tumultuous, record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season that officially ended more than a month ago. At 10 a.m., it had top sustained winds near 40 mph, up from a tropical depression with winds of 35 mph earlier in the day, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami. Zeta's first incarnation as a tropical storm lasted from Dec. 30 to around 4 a.m. Thursday. Its second chance as a storm shouldn't last more than a day, because another weather system should come along and "decapitate" Zeta with strong wind shear, hurricane specialist Stacy Stewart said. "This thing has been very tenacious," he said. "It's probably its last gasp." It is only the second Atlantic storm in recorded history to survive into January, joining Hurricane Alice in 1955. After Zeta dissipates, Stewart said, forecasters will review records to determine whether it or Alice lasted longest into January. Although the 2005 hurricane season officially ended Nov. 30, hurricane specialist Jack Beven said the season is "not officially over until we write the last advisory, which will be in the next day or two." The 2006 season officially begins June 1, but any tropical storms that form early would be part of its tally. The first name on the list is Alberto. At 10 a.m. EST, Zeta was centered about 1,045 miles east-northeast of the northern Leeward Islands and moving west-northwest near 10 mph. The 2005 season set record for the most named storms, most hurricanes (14) and most top-scale Category 5 hurricanes. Hurricane Katrina devastated Louisiana and Mississippi in August and became the most costly disaster in U.S. history. Before Zeta, Hurricane Epsilon became only the fifth hurricane to form in December in 154 years of record keeping. The 2005 season marked the first time that the Greek alphabet was used to name storms because the list of proper names was exhausted. Forecasters predict that hurricane seasons will be more active than usual for at least another decade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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