Talk:1975 Pacific hurricane season

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[edit] Unnamed Hurricane

How was this storm missed by meteorologists? They had satellites in 1975, so why wasn't it given a name even though it had an "evident eye" according to the article? This should be answered in the article. --tomf688^{talk} 20:13, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

I don't know where the author got the info, although UNISYS has the storm on record and I don't doubt its existance. I'd love to see a sat photo of it, but I highly doubt one exists. Meteorologists at the time probably thought this system was just a strong polar low or severe arctic storm, as is commonplace in the Alaskan region. -- Hurricane Eric - my dropsonde - archive 04:08, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Since the hurricane had no official name, I renamed it in the article simply as Unnamed Hurricane, just like we would in any other basin. Numbers are not officially assigned except for tropical depressions in most basins, and this guards against any changes in any future tropical cyclone reanalysis. There were not 12 tropical cyclones in the central Pacific that year to begin with...I believe the 12 is in reference to where it formed sequentially when considering all tropical storms/hurricanes east of the dateline and north of the equator which was done out of simplicity in the code for the eastern Pacific HURDAT. A satellite picture does exist. If you'd like, I'll get it scanned in. Thegreatdr 02:36, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Sounds great! Hurricanehink (talk) 02:39, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

There is a hitch. The image I found was in the original Monthly Weather Review article, which is in PDF as it is. Despite the fact this image is of government origin, the publication hasn't been directly published by the government/predecessor to the NWS in decades. It is published by the AMS. D'oh! Thegreatdr 02:48, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Damn. Oh well... Hurricanehink (talk) 02:52, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Not all hope is lost. I'm sure the NOAA image can be requested from NCDC. Unfortunately, the online polar orbiting archive begins in 1978. I'll see what I can get from NCDC, unless someone beats me to it. Thegreatdr 03:04, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

1978? Very interesting. There's an existing archive that goes back to mid-way through 1983, and I thought that was as far back as it went. Yea, go for the request, and good luck. Hurricanehink (talk) 13:17, 4 June 2006 (UTC)