Hurricane Hugo, Rita, '38 Anniversaries and Slow Lisa II

Having just passed the climatological peak of Hurricane Season, there are a number of storm anniversaries today. Tonight is the anniversary of Hurricane Hugo [WikiPedia] making landfall in South Carolina in 1989.

Hurricane Hugo is near and dear to my heart because it devastated my property in the North Carolina foothills. Check out these retrospective blog entries that I did last year (which was the 20th anniversary):

- 20th Anniversary of The Great Hurricane Hugo- 20th Anniversary: My Hurricane Hugo Photos

Today is also the anniversary of the landfall of the 1938 New England Hurricane [WikiPedia], something that I have also blogged about. Here is an updated graphic showing the highlights of that storm and a video showing some classic footage:

And finally, tonight is the anniversary of Hurricane Rita [WikiPedia] attaining her maximum strength in the Gulf of Mexico with 180 mph sustained winds, becoming the strongest storm ever in that region and 3rd strongest Atlantic storm at the time (see my blog from that day).

NOTE: Tropical Storm Lisa has formed in the far eastern Atlantic, just off the coast of Africa. As namesake AccuWeather.com Meteorologist & Astronomy Blogger Lisa Beightol writes on Facebook "My namesake storm is just like me...cautious, quiet and non-threatening, with absolutely no desire to go to Florida or Mexico. Yo Ho Yo Ho a pirate's life for me."

The storm is moving so slow we haven't even bothered to make an AccuWeather.com Eyepath graphic yet. Indeed, the "long-range" models show she's going nowhere fast - and these models go out 5-15 days into the future. Interestingly, the storm formerly bearing that name in 2004 was also a slow mover, and is number two in the record books for the slowest-strengthening storm.