27 Storms: Arlene to Zeta

Many records were broken during the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season including the most hurricanes ever, the most category 5 hurricanes, and the most intense hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic as measured by atmospheric pressure. This visualization shows all 27 named storms that formed in the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season and examines some of the conditions that made hurricane formation so favorable.

The animation begins by showing the regions of warm water that are favorable for storm development advancing northward through the peak of hurricane season and then receding as the waters cool. The thermal energy in these warm waters powers the hurricanes. Strong shearing winds in the troposphere can disrupt developing young storms, but measurements indicate that there was very little shearing wind activity in 2005 to impede storm formation.

Sea surface temperatures, clouds, storm tracks, and hurricane category labels are shown as the hurricane season progresses.

This visualization shows some of the actual data that NASA and NOAA satellites measured in 2005 -- data used to predict the paths and intensities of hurricanes. Satellite data play a vital role in helping us understand the land, ocean, and atmosphere systems that have such dramatic effects on our lives.

NOTE: This animation shows the named storms from the 2005 hurricane season. During a re-analysis of 2005, NOAA's Tropical Prediction Center/National Hurricane Center determined that a short-lived subtropcial storm developed near the Azores Islands in late September, increasing the 2005 tropical storm count from 27 to 28. This storm was not named and is not shown in this animation.

Credit:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Additional credits:
Sea surface temperature Data by Remote Sensing Systems and sponsored by the NASA Earth Science REASoN DISCOVER Project and the AMSRE-E Science Team.

NCEP Cloud composite courtesy of NOAA's Climate Prediction Center.

Storm tracks and strenghts courtesy of NOAA's National Weather Service.

Blue Marble MODIS data composite courtesy of the MODIS Science Team NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the NASA Earth Observatory.

Music created and produced by UniqueTracks. Fantasy (theme from Norma) - Vincenzo Bellini.

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[FionaTheFox]

I have always wanted to see something like this!!

[Dreamsender]

Thank you! the credit for this goes not to me,

but to the video archives of NASA itself.

I am endeavoring to put together a gallery

of meteorlogical and space exploration for

the education and enjoyment of all.

[HurricaneSalim]

@tcatron565

Dang, ur smart!

But I knew that too! LOLZ!

[bb83209]

@jwizno4life who cares

[thenatester45]

4 catagory fives you forgot emily

[Douken]

None hit Puerto Rico which is in the middle of everything lol. I guess we were lucky

[JustinNyland]

wow, that's a mess. welcome to the festerinmg butthole that are the tropics. yaaay!

[syncopated84]

awesome video!

[Mangina9000]

I remember Katrina. My ex-gf's Republican family went down and looted all the buildings for salvage.

[JACKIEMON1]

total tropical deorriccesonns is 31

[JACKIEMON1]

no .

[JACKIEMON1]

no leojmi