October 09, 2005

SAY HELLO TO HURRICANE VINCENZO

Willie Drye, author of Storm of the Century: The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935, sends along this missive:

Hey guys: If you need any more evidence that this has been a strange hurricane season, here it is: Hurricane Vince has formed.

Vince would be an oddity simply for the fact that it's the 20th named storm of the season. That makes 2005 the second-most active season on record. The most active was 1931, when we had 21 tropical storms (they didn't name them back then).

But what really puts Vince into the category of bizarre is the fact that it formed 614 miles west-southwest of ....Lisbon, Portugal. As far as I can tell, that's the first time a hurricane has formed in in that part of the Atlantic since at least 1851.

Vince isn't likely to be much more than a meteorological oddity. It's headed east-northeast, more or less, toward France, the English Channel and colder water. It's expected to weaken. But still ... what a season.

Later,

Willie

I appreciate you dropping the knowledge on us, Willie, but your skills must be slipping.

Hurricane Vinnie hit Tampa Bay hard today after forming off the New Jersey coast. This after we got rid of a terrible Vince only two days earlier.

Need proof?

Here's a photo taken at the epicenter of the disaster:

HurricaneVinny.jpg

Remember when Vinnie told the Bucs that part of his interception problem was due to the fact he was colorblind?

Yeah. Doesn't seem to bother him now.

Posted by Jeff at October 9, 2005 11:42 PM
Comments

Tremendous use of the sports/weather combination.

Posted by: Rev. Joe at October 10, 2005 11:11 PM

Remember the good old days? When Vinny was confined to his condo in Tampa, afraid to be seen in public, fearing retribution from pissed-off Bucs fans? Ah, I miss those days.

Posted by: Mike at October 11, 2005 05:25 PM

Mike, those were as bad as the Trent Dilfer days.

Posted by: Laura at October 12, 2005 06:54 AM

oh my gawd. how OLD is vinnie testaverde? isnt he like 400 years old? awesoem thats he is still around, and still winning. this year we havent had time to pay attn to the games like we used to. babies do that i guess.

Posted by: Dak-Ind at October 12, 2005 09:00 PM

You beat me to it. To all the Vince jokes.

I suck.

Posted by: cessna at October 12, 2005 10:10 PM
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