Hurricane Season

[Fly Navy]

Looks like Hurricane Season has kicked off with Hurricane Adrian in the Pacific hitting Central America.

 

[Dunedan]

Ahhhhhh fond memories of IVAN....

 

[nittany03]

55 knots gusting to 65 . . . BAH! I've seen worse!

(still glad I'm safely inland this year)

 

[Pags]

Now I know someone will prove me wrong, but I thought hurricanes had to be in the atlantic, and if it was in the pacific, it was a typhoon.

 

[Fly Navy]

55 knots gusting to 65 . . . BAH! I've seen worse!

(still glad I'm safely inland this year)

75MPH... on the low end of a hurricane, but think of how structures are built in that part of the world :icon_tong

 

[Fly Navy]

Now I know someone will prove me wrong, but I thought hurricanes had to be in the atlantic, and if it was in the pacific, it was a typhoon.

Talk to NOAA. They're calling it a Hurricane.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

 

[Schnugg]

That's bad stuff, but in Southern California, July through September is earthquake season.

Give me a hurricane any day.

r/
G

former San Diego resident for 14 years....

 

[Pags]

here we go, according to the folks at wikipedia:

"hurricane in the North Atlantic Ocean, North Pacific Ocean east of the dateline, and the South Pacific Ocean east of 160°E
typhoon in the Northwest Pacific Ocean west of the dateline"

 

[nittany03]

That makes sense. Thought typhoons were only in WESTPAC. And next time I'll stick my tongue further into my cheek when making facetious comments.

 

[mules83]

This past fall at ERAU, we had three days of classes and then over three weeks off due to four freaking hurricanes. Went up to atlanta and had the most relaxed time and most beer intake ever. Fun to do once but a pain with making up class time.

 

[A4sForever]

They are called "hurricanes" in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean. But once you go west across the International Dateline and into the western Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean, they're called typhoons. And of course, my Australian grandfather, who had strange and colorful names for just about everything (soy sauce was "elephant sweat" for example), had his own term for hurricanes: "Willy-Willys."

The Navy called them "Willy-Willys" (a nickname) when I was on active duty and before ...... Typhoons generally tend to be stronger than hurricanes, but only because there's warmer water in the western Pacific and thus better conditions for storm development. They are a constant factor in our (my) Pacific flying ....

 

[Fly Navy]

The Navy called them "Willy-Willys" (a nickname) when I was on active duty.

That's funny. We call Weather Watches "willy willys".

 

[skidkid]

Ahh typhoons at Futenma. There I was in a cab on my way back from Gate2 street the wind was so strong I thouhgt it was going to flip the cab, bet the driver was happy for the weight of three corn fed Gaijin in the back to keep his tires on the ground. I get back to my room in the lovely "Cul de Sac Inn" Affectionately called the crack house or first pump dump (all the first pump boots lived there so they could look after the bar). I pass out in my bed waking the next morning to three inches of water on my floor, I was on the second deck but the wind was so hard it drove the water though the door and window frames. Worst hangover experiences of my life.
Good times

 

[gaijin6423]

When I was stationed in Iwakuni, I had a buddy who worked in the station weather office. Whenever he got notice that a typhoon was headed our way, he'd call my roomate and I to pick up his share of the startup capital. We'd then proceed to buy up as much booze, tobacco, porn, cards, etc. that the three of us could afford and stash it in our barracks rooms. Then, when the powers that be locked us up inside for three days while the storm blew through, we'd...uh...SHARE our stockpile with the other Marines in the barracks. For a small fee, that is.

Second time I was in Japan, another typhoon blew through, and spent the entire two days drinking (VERY heavily) with the JMSDF Admiral in charge of their OCS. I'm suprised that I'm not permanently blind from the nasty homemade hooch he served us. Ain't no sake like homemade sake, that's for sure.

 

[VAmookie]

What we REALLY need is a hurricane off the east coast that has effects up to virginia. Last summer's hurricane really gave us some nice mild weather for PLC second inc. Could go for some of that again!