Hurricane Season 2020-Active Season-

Not to get too far ahead of ourselves but here is the Operational euro for next week Tuesday time frame. If the ridge we’re a bit stronger southern NE would have to watch closely.

2.7% chance Jon it even comes close.

Delta really took off today. Now a cat 4 with 120kt winds

jmanley32 wrote:It is unbelivable that we are about to have Zeta, and that louisiana may well see its THIRD strike from a hurricane in a 2 month period, I am pretty sure this has never happened anywhere on the US coast in a entire season let alone in a 2 month period.  Just nuts, and long rage GFS isn't quitting well into Nov...

Good morning Jon and everyone.  Definitely not unprecedented.  Not by a long shot.  The first year that came to my mind right away was 2004 because my sister and my brother from another mother were directly affected by 3 of them down in Fla.  

As you can see it started with August 12th Bonnie came ashore as a Trop storm.  One day later on August 13th Charlie landfalled as a Cat 4 just north of my buddy in Ft Meyers Beach.  He lives right on the one of the canals.  He said that after the winds started to calm down he and his neighbors were using their jet skis to go through his neighborhood to check on everyone.  

Fast forward less than a month to Sept 5th where Frances Made landfall as a Cat 2 just north of where my sister lived.(West Palm Beach).  Hurricane Ivan made landfall as a Cat 3 on Sept 16th near the wester Fla pan handle/E Alabama boarder after ravaging the island of Grenada on Sept7th as it passed only a few miles south of the tiny island where I had friends living at the time.  The stories they have are crazy; esp in the aftermath as most structural buildings were compromised and the looting was incredible.  Next was Jeanne on Sept 26th as a Cat 3 again making landfall in the exact same spot just north of my sister who lived in west palm beach as Frances back on the 5th.  





Now you may be saying what is that on the southern tip of Fla "Ivan as a trop depression" in the map above.  Well Ivan was one crazy system.  If Ivan the hurricane was put into human form this is what he might look like:




If you actually look at the entire life of Ivan's energy after making a landfall as a Cat 3 as stated above you can see in the below map it weakened over land into a Trop depression(blue circles) as it climbed latitude, exited the EC near the Delmarva before then regaining Trop storm status(green circles) and going on a crazy drive against traffic on the gulf stream freeway, before once again weakening back down to Trop depression status(blue circles) right as it passes over the southern tip of Fla near Miami and re-enters the GOM.  Once back into the GOM it regains its Trop storm status(green circles) and headed for yet another landfall near the western LA boarder.  It weakened back to a Trop depression right before landfall however.    





The very next year in the 2005 Hurricane season

June 11th Arlene Trop storm
August 29th the infamous Katrina as a Cat 3
About a week later to add insult to injury Cindy landfalled just west of where Katrina did as a Cat 1
and July 10th Dennis as a Cat 3





There are many more years where there are multiple landfalls not that far apart in both geography and time.