To: nwctwx
OMG. 902 confirmed. :-(
We will see 180-190 surface at the 4PM CT advisory. I cannot express how deep my sadness for the people of LA and Mississippi is at this moment. THey are about to see Camille wiped from the record books.
972 posted on
08/28/2005 11:39:21 AM PDT by
commish
((Montgomery, AL) Freedom Tastes Sweetest to Those Who Have Fought to Preserve It)
To: commish
So you think we are going to see 180 to 190 miles per hour winds?
995 posted on
08/28/2005 11:41:26 AM PDT by
Dog
( "Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie.")
To: commish
THey are about to see Camille wiped from the record books. I never thought I'd see another storm of that magnitude in my lifetime. But it sure looks like it.
998 posted on
08/28/2005 11:42:07 AM PDT by
Euro-American Scum
(A poverty-stricken middle class must be a disarmed middle class)
To: commish
I think she has a very good shot of going sub 900... already the strongest hurricane since records began in the GOM now. 180-190 sustained is possible, but I think we are starting to near theoretical limits with strength.
999 posted on
08/28/2005 11:42:12 AM PDT by
nwctwx
(Everything I need to know, I learned on the Threat Matrix)
To: commish
"The 1935 Labor Day Hurricane struck the Florida Keys with a minimum pressure of 892 mb--the lowest pressure ever observed in the United States. Hurricane Camille struck the Mississippi Gulf Coast causing a 25-foot storm surge, which inundated Pass Christian."
That comes from a NWS Saffire Simpson cat5 description. There is a patch of very warm water just south of the coast which could serve to feed this storm a little more and break the 892MB record.
God save those in the path of this storm.
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