Tropical Storm Marco (12)

Snowbie

http://www.irlweather.com/wxtropical.php

Looks like a landfall in Mehico. Quickly formed but be more a rain event than wind for the region.

Mullaghteelin

From one of yesterday's discusssions:

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2008/al13/al132008.discus.003.shtml?
I HAVE WORKED SOME TINY TYPHOONS IN THE WESTERN PACIFIC
BEFORE...BUT HORIZONTALLY-CHALLENGED MARCO COULD BE THE SMALLEST
TROPICAL CYCLONE ON RECORD.
Tropical storm force winds extended just 10-15 miles from the centre for most of its life!

Wertz

Smaller than that one that popped up around the Canaries outside the Atlantic hurricane season a couple of years back?

Snowbie

Wertz wrote: »

Smaller than that one that popped up around the Canaries outside the Atlantic hurricane season a couple of years back?

Hurricane Vince iirc. Also a compact little storm that made minimal Cat1. It's leftovers went over Iberia.

Edit: here you go

From the infamous year that was 2005 into beginning of 2006 season.

Storm Lifecycle
Tropical Storm Vince was named on October 9 in the east Atlantic near Madeira (east-southeast of the Azores) and was upgraded to a hurricane later that day though later analysis indicated that it had formed as a subtropical storm the previous day. Although Vince was a very small and short-lived storm that only briefly reached hurricane strength, it was notable for developing in the eastern Atlantic, well away from where hurricanes are usually found. This may be the farthest north and east a tropical cyclone has ever formed in the Atlantic Basin. Vince made landfall on the Iberian Peninsula near Huelva, Spain on October 11 just after weakening to a tropical depression. Vince was the first tropical cyclone on record to make landfall in Europe. More » No damages or injuries were reported. The NHC's archive on Hurricane Vince

Mullaghteelin

Just to comment on the size of Vince compared to Marco, looking back at the advisorys from Vince, its tropical storm force winds extended outwards from the centre for 115 miles at one point, so it was a giant compared to Marco!

Mullaghteelin

From: http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/show.html

"The hurricane season of 2008 has a new record--the kind of record we don't mind seeing! Tropical Storm Marco was the smallest tropical storm on record in the Atlantic. Records of tropical storm size only go back to 1988, so it is likely there have been other tropical storms as small as Marco in the past, though. If one looks at the maximum area covered by tropical storm force winds (in nautical miles squared, nm^2), given the radius of these winds for all four quadrants of each storm, the winners of the meekest of the meek award in the Atlantic are:
1) Marco, 2008, 1158 nm^2
2) Henri, 2001, 2238 nm^2
3) Bertha, 2002, 2827 nm^2
3) Bret, 2005, 2827 nm^2
3) Unnamed, 2006, 2827 nm^2"

Sligo 2008

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Sligo 2008

Ya i agree

Snowbie

Sligo 2008 wrote: »

fgd

Sligo 2008 wrote: »

Ya i agree

Can anyone please explain what these two comments are all about before i dismiss him/her? Anyone?

Edit: Nevermind, trolling across boards. Bye

Danno

Snowbie wrote: »

Can anyone please explain what these two comments are all about before i dismiss him/her? Anyone?

Man, you ARE in bad form today!

Deep Easterly

Snowbie wrote: »

http://www.irlweather.com/wxtropical.php

Looks like a landfall in Mehico.

:pac:

Rise above them mate, or better still, make them rise up to you :)