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With about a day until landfall, Hurricane Katrina could become the strongest hurricane on record. What do people think?????????????????????????

The latest update shows that Hurricane Katrina is now category five with a central pressure of 915mb and sustained windspeeds of 166mph. I hope everybody has been evacuated from New Orleans. Is it possible to get a category 6 hurricane and what is the record strength of a hurricane as Hurricane Katrina may beat this?????????

HURRICANE KATRINA IS NOW A CATEGORY 5 HURRICANE. If pressure is now 915mb as KW has stated, then Hurricane Katrina is now a category 5 hurricane, with windspeeds of 150mph at nearly 05:00, this would not suprise me. What is the record stength of a hurricane, as i feel that Hurricane Katrina could break that record as it is still nowhere near making landfall??????????

Yes, this is a devastating storm which will probibly make Hurricane Ivan look like a baby, i expect Hurricane Katrina to make landfall in western Texas as a moderate category five hurricane, it is interesting that although we have only had four hurricanes this season, three have them will of been major hurricanes, with two of them possibly category fives. What is the record for the amount of category five hurricanes forming in a single season as i think this record could be broken?????????????????????????????

Hurricane Katrina is now a category 2 hurricane with a central pressure of 971mb and mean wind speeds of 100mph. GFS indicate that Hurricane Katrina will be a category 4 huuricane when landfall is made in Alabama in three days.

Hurricane Katrina now has a central pressure of 981mb and could become a category 2 hurricane within a few haours, i expect Hurricane Katrina to make landfall in western Texas as a category 5 hurricane.

As the other sea ice thread was getting too long, i have decided to open this thread to carry on the discusion about sea surface temperatures and sea ice trends. Here is the situation at the moment, as of a few days ago the Polar sea ice has stopped melting and is now advancing again, this is a full two weeks earlier than last year, this is good news for the coming winter. At the moment there is a huge posotive sea surface temperature anomoly in the middle of the Atantic, if this were winter, it would probably favour a Jet Stream over the British Isles however if it disipates or moves south in time for the winter, the it will most likely favour a Jet Stream to the south of the British Isles, this is what we want for the coming winter. Carry on your discussion here.

If the ridge strengthened and forced Hurricane Katrina south west, then i suspect that it will make landfall again in a similar place to Hurrican Emily, if it moves slowly, then we may even see a category five hurricane as Hurricane Emily was due to the extremely warm water there. I expect to see eighteen named storms with six of them becoming hurricanes by the end of September, so far we have had eleven named storms and four hurricanes.

Here are the CET's of the winters during the first fifty years of the 20th centuary. 1900 - 3.1C - Cold 1901 - 4.3C - Average 1902 - 3.2C - Cold 1903 - 5.3C - Mild 1904 - 3.6C - Cold 1905 - 4.2C - Average 1906 - 4.4C - Average 1907 - 3.1C - Cold 1908 - 4.1C - Average 1909 - 3.4C - Cold 1910 - 4.2C - Average 1911 - 5C - Mild 1912 - 5.1C - Mild 1913 - 5.3C - Mild 1914 - 5.2C - Mild 1915 - 4.3C - Average 1916 - 5.5C - Mild 1917 - 1.5C - Severe 1918 - 4.2C - Average 1919 - 3.9C - Cold 1920 - 5.6C - Mild 1921 - 5.4C - Mild 1922 - 4.9C - Average 1923 - 5.7C - Mild 1924 - 3.9C - Cold 1925 - 5.8C - Mild 1926 - 4.5C - Average 1927 - 4.2C - Average 1928 - 4.3C - Average 1929 - 1.7C - Severe 1930 - 4.6C - Average 1931 - 3.8C - Cold 1932 - 4.8C - Average 1933 - 4.1C - Average 1934 - 3.2C - Cold 1935 - 6.1C - Hot 1936 - 3C - Cold 1937 - 5.4C - Mild 1938 - 4.6C - Average 1939 - 4.7C - Average 1940 - 1.5C - Severe 1941 - 2.6C - Severe 1942 - 2.2C - Severe 1943 - 5.9C - Mild 1944 - 4.3C - Average 1945 - 3.7C - Cold 1946 - 4.5C - Average 1947 - 1.1C - Severe 1948 - 5.4C - Mild 1949 - 5.6C - Mild

I would of liked to see a front chart of Sub-Tropical Storm Nicole.

Because i live near the Pennines, i get snow from almost any direction, although a easterly to north easterly wind is probably the best wind direction for me, the best thing for snow for me is a event like the one at the end of Feburary to occur, when there is a quasi-stationary frontal system, as it usually stays directly over me, it snowed for twelve hours at the end of Feburary, however due to the mild air embedded in the low pressure system, i only got four inches of snow.

I remember that on 31st December 2003, a warm front approached from the west and collided with cold air producing blizzards in the north east of England, this event gave me around four inches in around six hours, the snowflakes were massive.

Is the high pressure system on the 8th December 1990 a northward ddisplaced Azores High or a southward displaced Artic High, i susspect that it is a southward displaced Artic High however i cannot be sure.

Has any Tropical System done what Ivan did, but become a Hurricane again instead of a Tropical Storm.

19:09 The fastest wind speeds in the British Isles are in eastern England and northern Scotland where category 4 wind speeds are being recorded, the highest wind speed is 33mph in Donna Cook. The highest temperatures in the British Isles are in southern England where a temperature of 22C has been recorded in Solent. The lowest temperature in the British Isles are in northern Scotland where a temperature of only 13C has been recorded in Aberdeen. The highest pressure in the British Isles is 1024mb in the Outer Hebridees. The lowest pressure in the British Isles is 1018mb in East Anglia.

Did'nt you get any frontal snow at the end of Feburary???????????????

Yes, the media is appalling. Nobody actually made a forcast of the 12th of August being a scorcher, the Met Office said that there may be a warm spell around the middle of August and the media started printing record breaking headlines. I have a solution to the media bias problem, if we make York the capital city of England again then the media will be biased towards the north of England and they will start printing headlines of massive amounts of snow, when in reality it is only a inch.

It is my persoanl belief that this winter will feature a return to the "old school" synoptics with many snow events, the word marginal will not be heard this winter in my opinion.

What is sunspot activity like today????????????????

I must say, they are all great charts, especially the chart from the 7th of January 1985 however i do not like tyhe look of the third chart as much, due to the fact that the Mid-Atlantic High, is a displaced Azores High.

I must say, that all of those charts are great, however i prefer the chart from the 1st January 1979.

What was the depth of the snow on the road??????????????????????

For some strange reason, the south of England is not very humid, because of this, i suspect the front will give little rain to the south of England.

Hopefully there will be conditions like that this winter, i would of thought that you would of got more snow living in your location due to stalling fronts.

How much snow did you get in Feburary 1978????????????????????????