Posted on 08/30/2023 10:27:12 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Hurricane season began on June 1st and more often than not it is a month that doesn’t feature too much tropical storm activity, but back in early June 1966 it was a different story.
On June 4th, the first tropical depression of the young season formed near Nicaragua. The tropical depression moved north into the already warm waters of the Western Caribbean and strengthened rapidly into Hurricane Alma as it made landfall on the western tip of Cuba. Typically, when tropical systems make landfall they weaken, but Alma only got stronger as it continued to make its way to the north towards the Eastern Gulf of Mexico and U.S.
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I think Idalia is the first hurricane to hit the US this 2023 hurricane season, and one of the latest "first hurricane" to hit the US.
Prayers for those in path of the storm
Ping for historical accuracy.
Just for the record, the earliest to make landfall was Alma and it happened on June 8, 1966.
It is not in anyway historically accurate. The Labor Day hurricane of 1935 definitely hit the FL Keys. There is an amazing often overlooked Art Deco coquina rock memorial to the victims in a mass grave on Marathon Key. FDR- on a BS trip with his Flagler pals, gave a cursory photo op stop, and B/W photos of him there at the memorial. Full of himself as usual.
The list of hurricanes on wikipedia is better than this clown posting. 1935 the worst up until Andrew and then Katrina. Andrew blew an employee’s house right off the foundation into the Everglades outside Kendall, FL. They had left. Same thing with family in Katrina at Pass Christian, MS, which took their truck into the swamps 5 miles inland.
The Florida Keys count as landfall. Don’t know where the article gets first landfall in 1966. Hurricane Donna went right through Central FL in 1960. Galveston, TX hurricane was devastating in 1900 greatest natural disaster in US history, so stated.
Donna: https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/mwre/89/3/1520-0493_1961_089_0099_thso_2_0_co_2.xml
Galveston: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Galveston_hurricane
“It is not in anyway historically accurate. The Labor Day hurricane of 1935 definitely hit the FL Keys.”
Right! Not to mention the great hurricane of 1937 (Catherine Hepburn was in it).
And my mom talked about Hurricane Donna in 1960 and there was a big one in the 50’s (can’t remember the name).
It's late August 2023 and this is the first hurricane to hit this hurricane season.
I lived through "tropical storm" Agnes in 72, and there was major damage, and that was mid-june 1972.
So I dreamed Hurricane Carla in 1961, that unfortunately gave Dan Rather his first national exposure and led to his career
what a distinction. June too Soon. See if you know the rest of the rhyme meme that all the oldtime mariners knew.
My daughter and cousin both live in Tampa more or less at sea level. My daughter says her area flooded. Her apartment is on the 3rd floor, so no problem there, but the parking lot flooded. She and her husband stayed last night at a hotel in the casino area, so they’re OK. Don’t know when they can go back though.
The earliest ever was May 27th, 219 BC. Prove me wrong!
I lived in Orlando in 92 when Andrew came through.
Andrew was a very intense but relatively small storm, that devastated south Miami.
When Andrew came through Miami, Orlando 175 miles north was sunny and windy, 50 mph winds max.
Prayers for your daughter
“Ping for historical accuracy.”
Is that sarcasm?
I’d ping it for historical inaccuracy because a massive hurricane hit Galveston, TX in 1900 and tore through America up past Maine.
A fascinating book was written on it: “Isaac’s Storm: A Man, A Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History” by Erik Larson.
I spent two weeks helping clean that town up.
I was stationed in Biloxi at the time.
I’d ping it for historical inaccuracy because a massive hurricane hit Galveston, TX in 1900 and tore through America up past Maine
You are kinda of making my point, a devastating hurricane hit Galevelston 123 years ago, was that climate change?
June 4 is earlier than September 9 or thereabouts.
And ever since the media has declared, “the next hurricane is the worst in our nation’s history”! Just like trained seals they clap and squeal as one.
I stand corrected. The point of the article is the date.
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