Meteorologist Jeff Ranieri

As I was filing a recent hurricane story away in my computer email I noticed how dated some of the saved files have become. I started looking at timelines and came upon one that is two years ago today. JULY 25 2007. To me this is very interesting and really puts into perspective how historical the season of 05 would become. I have posted the email below take a look at the subject line. I think it's a great reminder of how quickly the season escalated.

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Here is the email:

Subject: What happens when we run out of Tropical Names?
Author: Former Weather Plus Meteorologist Buddy Reeves

Email:
Since we are at #7 in the list in July..this is an nice tidbit I found
(PAGE 4 has the list)
Basically, if we get thru the list...we start using the Greek Alphabet...Alpha, Beta
I may make a panel for this for MSNBC if you guys care to use it in your tropical later!
Buddy Reeves
Meteorologist
MSNBC Weather Producer

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Reading this email and looking at others brought back a wave of memories. 2005 was a season like no other when it came to total devastation, death, and storms that ravaged and wiped out complete towns.
2005 Hurricane Season:
28 total storms - a new record
15 Hurricanes
7 strengthened into major hurricanes (cat. 3 or higher)
While the current season does not compare to this time in 2005 it definitely is no signal that the rest of the season will be as quiet. Remember that we could still see La Nina set up which is known to enhance tropical activity and we are only days away from August which generally marks the up tick in activity.

Hurricane Central

Even though I just filed another story in my hurricane folder, the memories are not so easily filed away. I will never forget the first hand images of 2005 that changed my forecasting and total awareness of how powerful the elements of weather can become.