re: Storm Tracking Thread: Post Tropical Storm Hermine

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Notice how it very quickly dissapates just as it moves on shore. Very much like hurricane Carmen in 1974 and hurricane lily in 2002. Both of those hit almost the same exact location. Both of those hurricanes whipped up to very intense hurricanes but began rapidly weakening just before landfall and did relatively little damage. They have done studies to try to figure out why certain storms do that as they move onto the north gulf coast. Even Katrina did this. It just happened to be soon strong to begin with that even with the rapid de-intensification prior to landfall it didn't give itself enough time to weaken before it obviously did lots of damage. But believe it or not Katrina could have been much much worse. There is a huge difference between cat 5 and cat 3.

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Katrina had cat 5 storm surge. That's what did in Nola. Of course it could have been worse, but that was a once in a lifetime type storm.