Just A Little Idea Of What's Going On...
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category 5 is sustained winds of 150 mph or greater, this thing weakened from cuba, but still has yet to enter the warm waters of the gulf.
RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT REPORTS INDICATE MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS HAVE DECREASED TO NEAR 145 MPH...235 KM/HR...WITH HIGHER GUSTS. ALTHOUGH DENNIS IS STILL A STRONG CATEGORY 4 HURRICANE ON THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON SCALE...SOME ADDITIONAL WEAKENING IS FORECAST AS DENNIS MOVES OVER CUBA. HOWEVER...DENNIS IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN A MAJOR HURRICANE AS IT EMERGES OVER THE STRAITS OF FLORIDA AND THE SOUTHEASTERN GULF OF MEXICO THIS EVENING.
HURRICANE FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 50 MILES... 85 KM...
FROM THE CENTER...AND TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP
TO 160 MILES...260 KM.
RAINFALL OF 4 TO 8 INCHES IS EXPECTED OVER EXTREME SOUTHERN FLORIDA...JAMAICA AND THE CAYMAN ISLANDS. THESE RAINS COULD PRODUCE LIFE-THREATENING FLASH FLOODS AND MUD SLIDES.
OF 3 TO 6 FEET IS POSSIBLE IN THE LOWER FLORIDA KEYS. A STORM SURGE
OF 4 TO 7 FEET IS POSSIBLE ALONG THE SOUTHWEST COAST OF FLORIDA
TONIGHT AND SATURDAY. (updates again at 5 pm)
HURRICANE FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 50 MILES... 85 KM...
FROM THE CENTER...AND TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP
TO 160 MILES...260 KM.
RAINFALL OF 4 TO 8 INCHES IS EXPECTED OVER EXTREME SOUTHERN FLORIDA...JAMAICA AND THE CAYMAN ISLANDS. THESE RAINS COULD PRODUCE LIFE-THREATENING FLASH FLOODS AND MUD SLIDES.
OF 3 TO 6 FEET IS POSSIBLE IN THE LOWER FLORIDA KEYS. A STORM SURGE
OF 4 TO 7 FEET IS POSSIBLE ALONG THE SOUTHWEST COAST OF FLORIDA
TONIGHT AND SATURDAY. (updates again at 5 pm)
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From: Mississippi
i have an ex-hurricane hunter friend who says that his still hurricane hunter friends are still predicting it to go right up the mississippi river, not mobile/peniscola like the news people say.
but, that is frind of a friend system, so who knows...
but, that is frind of a friend system, so who knows...
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From: My BIG ol TURBO-DIESEL
MY Father-in-law was the NOAA MIC (Meteorologist In Charge) for the Charleston Regional office during the Hugo Season (1989). He predicated HUGO would hit Charleston and recommended an earlier evacuation, but the National Hurricane Center Manager in Miami shut him down.
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