Hurricane Season 2007, 64 Days & Counting
Posted by Jeff Gammons on 28 Mar 2007 at 1:09 am
Tagged as: Hurricane Expeditions, Storm Chasers
I look to the calendar today and see that we are down to 64 days left ( almost 8 weeks), until the start of the 2007 Atlantic Basin Hurricane Season. Wow! Can you believe that it’s almost time to start watching all the tropical disturbances that form in the tropical Atlantic? I know for many, especially along the northern Gulf and Florida, they are not looking forward to a new hurricane season. Being a Hurricane Chaser, I do look forward to the hurricane season because I love to forecast and track the storms regardless if I chase them or not. Hurricanes are going to happened, and I’m just here to document them and learn from them. ….That’s a whole other topic that I will blog about soon.
The best thing for residents that live in hurricane prone area’s is to be ready long before any storm even forms. If your ready, you’ll make it through the event much better and this will be less stress on your family and yourself. I prepare early each season for my family and home, that way when it comes time to chase and my home is located in the hurricane warning forecast area, I know I’m all set and just need to move family members to safer locations if need be and everything else is all set. Being prepared is key to dealing with all the dangers of during the storm if your riding it out, and all the intense stress during the aftermath and clean up process. Remember, you can be without power for 10 days, so plan ahead.
Once again this year, I’ll be intercepting any land falling hurricanes in the United States. Last year was a very slow season “landfall wise” in the U.S. due to a developing El Nino. This year could be much different. It’s still early and this year could easily be a dud like last year. This topic will be coming up more and more over the next 8 weeks as we near the start of the season. I will continue my blog posts covering developing systems, active hurricanes, computer forecast model and satellite storm discussions, and hurricane chase intercept blog coverage with my photos and video from the road.
If your in the South and Central Florida area’s, I will be speaking at a few hurricane preparedness venues in early May and again in early June. I will post dates and locations on this blog two weeks or so before the events, so please check back. I’ll also try and add some highlight videos from some of the event on this blog.
Yeah, this blog post will likely set off some of the “Hurricane Die Hard Enthusiasts” to start sending emails asking “how bad will this season get?”. Really, I’d love to chat hurricanes, hit up my comments section. I know were still out a little over two months from the start, and in which the June and July months of the hurricane season are normally slow to start anyway, but it is closing in. I’m looking forward to bringing you my hurricane expedition scenes, thoughts and encounters once again this season, and to share my passion for tracking these monster storms on earth. Much more to come in the coming weeks and during the opening of the Atlantic Hurricane Season 2007.
Related post and hurricane video links:
My past hurricane chasing logs and images
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I know I can’t wait till June!!! last year was my first year with the Internet and a digital camera and camcorder and as you said it was a pretty slow season…boring.
My husband and i were talking last night about where we would go if we had a direct hit. We live about two miles and us 19 away from the gulf coast. It seems to me after 2005 “Charley” that no where is really safe. I said we make to find a good spot in are house and tough it out. But he brought up a good point …surge how far would it come up?
could are home get flooded we are 3rd to go for evacuations.
I of course want my family to be safe, but for me i would want to ride it out. our house is solid built in the seventy’s not one one of the new paper houses. What do you think?
Time to get my 2007 tracking poster, eh? Last year’s season was pretty boring… Perhaps, we’ll get past the I’s this year. It was so funny last year when Alberto went over South Central GA. EM was going crazy putting out notices about how awful it would be. lol… It got kind of breezy… but otherwise a non-event, and the center of circulation went right over us…