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THIS PAGE WILL BE UNDER CONSTRUCTION UNTIL THE 2010  HURRICANE SEASON ARRIVES.

Note: Be sure to use your "Go Back" area to return to NEGAWX when a web
page link takes you on a visit away from the regular Northeast Georgia Mountain Weather web pages.


At one time, people were of the opinion that the mountains were a safe haven

from (hurricanes) tropical storms.  In just the past decade folks in the mountains

have discovered these systems do reach into the mountains and due to our

higher elevations, these storms do produce very heavy flooding rains, high winds

and tornadoes.  The tropical system page here on the Northeast Georgia Mountain

Weather web will and can be very informative to receive the latest data as tropical

storms, especially their feeder bands that spin off tornadoes, make their way into

the mountains.  Special Note: Hurricanes that usually impact the mountains the

most are those systems that come ashore from the Florida panhandle to Louisiana.

 

 

THIS AREA RESERVED FOR PLOTTING MAPS OF TROPICAL SYSTEMS.




This is an infrared image. The higher the tops, the darker the color.





The purpose of this image is to let viewers know if a weather system
has the potential to develop into a tropical storm or greater. The
systems are circled in a particular color and the color correlates to
the probability of further storm development.

NEGAWX is often asked, "Can hurricanes reach the Northeast Georgia
Mountains?"  Yes they can and hurricanes in 2001 to 2007 have caused
considerable damage and a week without power. Hurricane Ivan "The
Terrible" sent winds gusting, for over 12 hours, to 81 MPH and
sustained winds >50 MPH.  NEGAWX takes hurricanes in the mountains
seriously.
 
A new symbol is being used by the National Hurricane Center.  If
the map is displaying the symbol Lx that means an old system or a
developing system has been classified as a low-pressure system with
some circular rotation and has been upgraded or degraded to a tropical
depression.

If you see a written number above the "Lx" such as SEVEN; that means
an area of thunderstorms has developed into a tropical depression and
if the depression develops further, into a tropical storm, it will be
named beginning with the seventh letter of the alphabet. As an example,
the 7th letter of the alphabet is "G" and the system could be named
GLORIA or any name (male/female) beginning with the letter G.