Do hurricanes follow snow?

**Miss Critter** · 01-13-2009, 07:31 PM

A friend sent me this email. Please someone say the logic is faulty. Other snow years without a major hurricane following? I realize we're not New Orleans, but we're pretty darn close by hurricane standards.

A friend of ours brought this to our attention last night and we just thought it was interesting how the years and natural disasters fell.

Check it out below.

Notice the years and the pattern of natural disasters experienced by New Orleans :

1964 - Snow
1965 - Hurricane Betsy

1968 - Snow
1969 - Hurricane Camille

2004 - Snow
2005 - Hurricane Katrina

2008 - Snow
2009 - (?) NOOOOO HUH!!!!

**scooterbug44** · 01-14-2009, 08:54 AM

What defines a snow year? Seems light on the data.

Last year we had record snowfall out West (roofers were scrambling), but a quiet hurricane season here.

**Miss Critter** · 01-14-2009, 11:43 AM

Originally Posted by scooterbug44

What defines a snow year? Seems light on the data.

Last year we had record snowfall out West (roofers were scrambling), but a quiet hurricane season here.

We're talking New Orleans, so that would be any snow.

**Miss Kitty** · 01-14-2009, 11:49 AM

Like we don't have enough to worry about.

**scooterbug44** · 01-14-2009, 11:49 AM

That would make sense then - extreme winter weather triggers extreme summer weather.

But if it snowed between 1968 and 2004, don't think it's a valid idea.

**Miss Critter** · 01-14-2009, 01:43 PM

I would think a frigid winter would cool the gulf waters below normal levels and make a hurricane less likely to form.

**BeachSiO2** · 01-14-2009, 04:54 PM

I don't know. Did the groundhog see his shadow?

**rapunzel** · 01-14-2009, 11:34 PM

You know, a nice yat lady I used to work with mentioned the snow thing back in 2004. When I mentioned how excited we'd been about our white Christmas that year. She said her dad always said snow brought hurricanes. She also said that hurricanes trained and an early hit was a bad omen -- Cindy. Old yat tales seem to hold some truth.

Well, at least we haven't had any snow here!

**SWGB** · 01-15-2009, 02:30 AM

Originally Posted by MissCritter

I would think a frigid winter would cool the gulf waters below normal levels and make a hurricane less likely to form.

Nah, more snow, more runoff, more crap in the water making it darker and absorbing more light/heat from the sun.

**ginfarmer** · 02-06-2009, 12:09 PM

Originally Posted by MissCritter

A friend sent me this email. Please someone say the logic is faulty. Other snow years without a major hurricane following? I realize we're not New Orleans, but we're pretty darn close by hurricane standards.

The e-mail you received is a hoax. There were no snowfalls in New Orleans in either 1964 or 1968.

**SWGB** · 02-06-2009, 01:42 PM

Originally Posted by ginfarmer

The e-mail you received is a hoax. There were no snowfalls in New Orleans in either 1964 or 1968.

Umm, the record for snow fall is in December of 1963, the next hurricane season after would have been 1964.

New Orleans brews rare snowfall - USATODAY.com

**Miss Critter** · 02-06-2009, 02:20 PM

I heard New Orleans meteorologist Carl Arrendondo dispute the email on WWL radio last week. Whew!!

**ginfarmer** · 02-06-2009, 02:33 PM

Originally Posted by sowalgayboi

Umm, the record for snow fall is in December of 1963, the next hurricane season after would have been 1964.

New Orleans brews rare snowfall - USATODAY.com

Yes, and no major hurricanes struck in the gulf in 1964. Hurricane Betsy hit New Orleans in 1965. To verify this run a Google search on "Hurricane Betsy."

**Miss Critter** · 02-06-2009, 02:35 PM

Originally Posted by ginfarmer

Yes, and no major hurricanes struck in the gulf in 1964. Hurricane Betsy hit New Orleans in 1965. To verify this run a Google search on "Hurricane Betsy."

Um, no thank you. That would be like summoning the bad-karma gods.

**ginfarmer** · 02-06-2009, 02:36 PM

Originally Posted by scooterbug44

That would make sense then - extreme winter weather triggers extreme summer weather.

But if it snowed between 1968 and 2004, don't think it's a valid idea.

It snowed in New Orleans in 1989. To check it out, go to Google and run a search on "New Orleans snow 1989."

**NotDeadYet** · 02-06-2009, 06:50 PM

2009 Deep South Long-Range Weather Forecast and Prediction - The Old Farmer's Almanac

Farmer's Almanac says to expect a hurricane in September

**tigerswin** · 03-01-2009, 09:35 AM

Cold fronts move high pressure and high pressure steers the storms through the atlantic. Cold fronts dipping into the gulf and causing the jet stream to dip that far south could strengthen the high over the atlantic and that would keep these storms moving westward. What affect do El Nino and La Nina have on all of this?

**SWGB** · 03-02-2009, 08:08 PM

Had an interesting conversation over the weekend pertaining to the theory that turtle nests can predict hurricanes. In recent memory this seems to line up, about 99% of the time, with the actual weather patterns.

Here's to lots of turtle nests this summer!

**Lynnie** · 03-02-2009, 09:47 PM

Turtles, yellow flies and millipedes - keep you thinkin'!!

**ItzKatzTime** · 03-08-2009, 02:57 PM

Originally Posted by BeachSiO2

I don't know. Did the groundhog see his shadow?

**ItzKatzTime** · 03-08-2009, 03:02 PM

Originally Posted by rapunzel

You know, a nice yat lady I used to work with mentioned the snow thing back in 2004. When I mentioned how excited we'd been about our white Christmas that year. She said her dad always said snow brought hurricanes. She also said that hurricanes trained and an early hit was a bad omen -- Cindy. Old yat tales seem to hold some truth.

Well, at least we haven't had any snow here!

I love old "Yat" tales. They are usually very mysterious when telling them.....and I've found many come true and other are half truths. But worth listening too! Good one rapunzel!