Hugh
(Senior Storm Chaser)
Sun Sep 18 2005 02:57 AM
Re: 96L

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I noticed that too... but we had 3 named storms earlier in the season (Katrina, Lee, and Maria I think - at least).



We also had Maria, Nate, and Ophelia at once.

Every few minutes the NHC page changes which ones are there...but if you click on 11pm stuff you can sort of figure out what we have:

TD17 -> TS Philippe
96L -> TD18

And the spare one is NHC calling their web developers asking "what am I doing wrong?"



I thought the spare one was NHC calling their web developers asking "How do I get rid of this pest [Ophelia] that refuses to die even though it's COLD in Canada!??"

They have no graphics up for TD18 currently - at least not the last time I refreshed the page.. and I didn't see a discussion. What's the confidence level in the forecast?

I can just imagine the 10:30pm NHC Tropical Outlook:
"The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on recently upgraded Tropical Storm Philippe, near the Lesser Antilles, on newly formed Tropical Depression 18 east of the Bahamas, and has pushed Tropical Storm Ophelia off to the Canadian Hurricane Center because we don't have room for it anymore.

Oh, and if you're keeping track, we're issuing advisories on Hurricane Jova, Hurricane Kenneth, and Tropical Storm Lidia in the East Pacific, too. "

Six semi-tropical entities in the western hemisphere at one time. That's got to be a record.


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