Hurricane Humberto

[toxictwister00]

 

...TROPICAL DEPRESSION FORMS OVER THE FAR EASTERN ATLANTIC... ...TROPICAL STORM WARNING ISSUED FOR THE SOUTHERN CAPE VERDE ISLANDS...

5:00 PM AST Sun Sep 8
Location: 13.1°N 20.7°W
Moving: W at 10 mph
Min pressure: 1007 mb
Max sustained: 30 mph

[gt1racerlHDl]

from what NHC forecasts TD 9 will become a Hurricane on the record date "September 11th" 

[toxictwister00]

I REALLY hope it doesn't...

[weatherfan_2013]

It sounds like the hurricane specialists on TWC want a hurricane before the 11th. Maybe or Maybe not? But last week I saw Al and Stephanie bet $20 if we did not get a hurricane before the week of the 11th. It's also surprising that there's so much shear and dry air in the Atlantic even though we are not in an El Nino pattern. Probably a once in every one or two decades event.

[WeatherWitness]

TD 9 becomes TS Humberto, with sustained winds of 45 mph.  This storm looks to be our first hurricane of the 2013 Atlantic season by Tuesday or Wednesday, but it will remain far away from the U.S. (for now).

[phw115wvwx]

Humberto is not going to pose any threat to the United States.  The only land impact from this tropical storm will just be the Cape Verde Islands.  Eventually, an upper level trough will pick it up over the middle Atlantic and send it toward Europe as an extratropical storm in about a week or two from now. 

Lastly, why are people getting caught up in this latest hurricane record for September 11 in the Atlantic basin?  It's pointless compared to the real record for least activity, which goes to 1914 when only one tropical storm formed during the entire season.  There's even another season with no hurricanes documented, which was 1907.  So, I don't understand the big deal with this September 11 record when there were actually two seasons that never had a hurricane.

[toxictwister00]

Humberto is not going to pose any threat to the United States.  The only land impact from this tropical storm will just be the Cape Verde Islands.  Eventually, an upper level trough will pick it up over the middle Atlantic and send it toward Europe as an extratropical storm in about a week or two from now. 

Lastly, why are people getting caught up in this latest hurricane record for September 11 in the Atlantic basin?  It's pointless compared to the real record for least activity, which goes to 1914 when only one tropical storm formed during the entire season.  There's even another season with no hurricanes documented, which was 1907.  So, I don't understand the big deal with this September 11 record when there were actually two seasons that never had a hurricane.

A record is a record which is why it's a big deal. If the hurricane season is going to be boring and lame (for hurricane enthusiasts/storm chasers)breaking that record allows it to be lame for a reason.

Besides, it's not like this is something that happens very frequently like every other year or something. It's been 11 years since the last time this happened.

[Eric]

Lastly, why are people getting caught up in this latest hurricane record for September 11 in the Atlantic basin?  It's pointless compared to the real record for least activity, which goes to 1914 when only one tropical storm formed during the entire season.  There's even another season with no hurricanes documented, which was 1907.  So, I don't understand the big deal with this September 11 record when there were actually two seasons that never had a hurricane.

I suppose people are interested in it because it's one of those potential once-in-a-lifetime kinds of things.  Unless, of course, someone just celebrated his centennial birthday and probably couldn't care less.

[phw115wvwx]

Humberto is up to 65 mph winds, and it appears this system may linger over the Atlantic for a while according to the long-range models.  However, it should be picked up by an upper level trough during the end of next week or maybe even later, so I don't see Humberto as a threat to the United States.  It will become the longest-lived tropical cyclone for the Atlantic basin in 2013 so far as no other storm has passed five days.

[WeatherWitness]

Hurricane Humberto is the first hurricane of the 2013 Atlantic season, with sustained winds of 75 mph.  It will continue to travel northward over the next few days before making a sharp turn towards the west out to the open Atlantic waters.

[phw115wvwx]

Hurricane Humberto has reached 80 mph winds as of 11 AM EDT, and it did reach hurricane intensity this morning before the record that was earlier in jeopardy.