2024 Tropical Weather Thread (26 Viewers)

[Andrus]

Can't say that I can remember ever seeing something like this happen before...

 

[bclemms]

To the point that I always thought it was a geographical/meteorological aspect of the west Florida coast— that they were in some kind of a “hurricane shadow” and couldn’t really ever get hit from a storm in the Gulf (as opposed to a storm coming off the Atlantic and crossing the peninsula east to west).

Ian, WIlma and Charlie are the most recent majors to hit the west coast of Florida. Typically they take hits when storms form down by Belize or the central Caribbean and then take the turn. The only place along the Gulf that is unlikely for a major hurricane is the area below and even that is not impossible.

Can't say that I can remember ever seeing something like this happen before...

Hurricane Lorenzo in 2019 was similar but more powerful. I was in Ireland for that one. It happens every 4-5 years and is becoming more common.

 

[Andrus]