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Is there an area in the Hurricane activity area that has never been hit by a hurricane? some anomoly area that has never seen a direct hit due to some quirk or condition? Just curious if anyone has just looked at every path since they are available and said...Wow....Hurricanes just never go there. |
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I'd say probably not, judging by this graphic |
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That doesn't make me feel good. Picked the area between Gainesville and Jacksonville for the lack of Hurricanes. |
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Cool. What is the source page for that graphic? I'd like to narrow it down little by little to see if I get something interesting by only going back 75 years or so. Hurricanes cut such a wide swath that it would have to be a pretty significant "hole"....curious. and thanks for the graphic.... |
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I just pulled the image from a NOAA website after doing a Google image search for it. There are probably sites where you can create those sorts of images yourself, but I don't have the addresses on hand right now. |
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If my memory serves me correctly., I don't think the Houston/Galveston area has taken a hit in a long time. |
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Quote: Last hit was in 1943: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/hgx/projects/hurr_1943.htm |
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This site narrows it down a bit: wxrisk |
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Quote: I've lived in Florida for 20 years and the Jacksonville area has pretty much been spared during that time, as has the south coast of Georgia. I'm not sure if that's just good luck or if there's a climatological explanation for it. Perhaps those more knowledgeable about the science of tropical weather than I am can shed some light. |
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The area north of Jacksonville and south of Cape Romain, SC, is known as the South Atlantic Bight. Here is a quote from "The Natural History of Georgia's Barrier Islands" by Taylor Schoettle. It helps to explain why this geophysical area has a lower potential for hurricane strikes. Quote: I also seem to remember from my meteorology course at CofC that there is a transition between global wind belts that affects this area as well. The subtropical high pressure belt is located right around 30N (the latitude of Jacksonville). North of there, the prevailing westerlies tend to help bend storms back to the east. The real mets probably have a better grasp on this than I, and I may be way off base. |
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Another good location for searching historical hurricane tracks can be found at the NOAA Coastal Services Center website . Short answer, there may be quiet periods where certain regions experience an absence in tropical activity, but IMHO there are no 'hurricane free zones'. |
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Houston/Galveston was hit in 1983 by Hurricane Alicia. |
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Jacksonville was only hit by Hurricane Dora in 1964 and that was it. |
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Hi all !!! First post here , I'm a 22 years old fanatic of weathers and everything related to it. I live in Montreal so I'm a french speaker first but i'll try to use a good english for the forums. 4 or 5 years ago , I went to Oklahoma or a city close to it , not sure , and in 5 days I was ''lucky'' enough to see 2 tornadoes in front of my eyes.My cousin was going to have an heart attack but not me , I was pretty excited to say the least.I think I have the ''Storm Chaser'' in me .I'm actually working on it and want to make some beautiful videos and pics but that's not for today. Sorry to do my presentation in this thread but I wanted to know , by looking at the picture , if an hurricane could really hit Montreal? Really curious as I thought it was ''impossible'' even if I dont like this word. Can someone help me , cause I think I see a black lign in the picture hitting Montreal. |
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The Houston / Galveston area was hit by Hurricane Alicia in 1983. This was already posted above. Please read carefully prior to posting. |
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Excellent read, written by Bill Read the now director of the NHC... thanks for posting it. Not only was it a surprise but it is rarely referred to or referenced as if it never happened. More the forgotten hurricane... found it doing research the other day and I realized I too forgot about the serious WW2 Cane. http://www.srh.noaa.gov/hgx/projects/hurr_1943.htm Concern over shipping and politics and perception of our strength during war time kept publicity minimal. Also, newspaper accounts before it hit have gone down in history with inacurrate accounts. Interesting paragraph: "If it had crossed over the island instead of the Bolivar Peninsula, a large storm surge would have been pushed into the Bay area causing possibly a large loss of life, due to the lack of warning. People living along the northern and western shore of Galveston Bay would have been trapped to face the pounding waves and rising seas on land as low as five feet above sea level in many places. Compared with the damage that was done, who knows how bad the destruction and loss of live would have been." Re: Alicia and the damage that downtown received... they seem to have received similar damage this time so what if anything was learned from Alicia that was not applied. And, did "hurricane glass" in newer building stand up? Do they use it there as they do in Miami.. I am wondering. |