HR,

It's cool. It's just that in the past there have been several posters (some of whom I think are now banned) who posted somewhat incoherently. Just makes them harder to read.

Earlier Bobbi/Lois made mention of Camille being a wave that drifted across the pond from Africa. Checked a couple of tracking sites that indeed showed Camille only being recognized as a TS just south of Cuba. So I did a little digging and found out that it was indeed a CV hurricane, it is just that with the primitive tracking available back then, no one really noticed it's trajectory. Here's a somewhat interesting first hand account of the storm:

"First noticed as a tropical disturbance off the coast of Africa in early August, Camille's beginnings were rather unremarkable. For the next several days, the disturbance became more and more organized, prompting the Air Force to send a reconnaissance plane in to investigate on August 14th. Enter Tropical Storm Camille in the western Caribbean. But Camille didn't remain a tropical storm for long. It continued to intensify, reaching hurricane strength the following day. Located 60 miles southeast of Cape San Antonio, Cuba, Camille's winds reached 115 mph. On August 15th, Camille claimed her first 3 victims as it struck Cuba. It dropped 10 inches of rain on the western end of the island with winds gusting over 100 mph. On August 16th, another Air Force reconnaissance team flew into the eye of the hurricane. The information they radioed back to the National Hurricane Center sent chills up the spines of the forcasters. Camille was now a Category 5 hurricane with sustained winds of 160 mph. There was no question the monster storm would strike the Gulf Coast of the United States. The only question was where?"

There's much more of course, but the point is that these waves, particularly later in the season, must be watched. Not every one needs an Invest, but still, Camille was an example of a long tracker that literally "stayed below the radar screen." I'm wondering if there are more such storms that only got organized much closer to the US but were really "born" much farther east?

LI Phil