I just did my latest Daily Green item about Tropical Storm Erin--the last 2007 Atlantic storm to have its definitive report (PDF) emerge from the bowels of the National Hurricane Center.
Suffice it to say that the delay seems well justified--meteorologists still don't really have a clue what Erin was. I mean, we're talking about a storm that barely attained tropical storm status over the Gulf, but that developed an eye, 995 mb central pressure, and 50 knot winds over Oklahoma!
Read here for more on this very, very wacky weather phenomenon....
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Wasn't there a "Thingamabobbercane" in the Bay area of CA last winter, too? It was dramatically windy, and half-assed organized, but not entirely classifiable?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/05/us/05calif.html
Eh, I don't know. Not my field. Maybe everyone knew what it was. But my SF friends thought it was mighty odd.