Posted on 07/08/2005 9:16:16 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Forgot the links.
Base site:
http://weather.cod.edu/analysis/paulradar.pl?BYX
Image Link:
http://weather.cod.edu/nexrad/floater/BYX/BYX.TOPS.gif
Nighters!
Tornado warning has expired. I just watch the cats' ears to know if I need to bolt for safety.
That is a way cool view. Is that a snap or will it update when the page is refreshed?
Stay safe down there - around here the weather would bore you to death. Cold, and rainy today.
Don't forget to click "auto refresh" to keep it current.
It will update.
Missed your question 'cause I was busy reading your mind ;)
Boy .. you're getting some weather now, nauti.
Convection seems to be firing quite well over Cuba just south of the eye now. This might be a sign that the southerly inflow is getting organized. I would expect that area to expand and begin to wrap around the center again within the next few hours.
Do you know what the deal is with the red box as opposed to the black tornador warning boxes on that NOAA site?
A FReeper said there was a tornado in the Miami area earlier.
If anyone had to be hit, please let it be Fidel.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/radar/loop/DS.p19r0/si.kbyx.shtml
Looks like a new eye-wall is forming around the old one. This could be the beginning of an eye-wall replacement cycle. If this is happening already, the storm will likely start strengthening rapidly rather quickly.
...Eye of Dennis moves over the Florida Straits after crossing Havana...
a Hurricane Warning is in effect for Cuba for the provinces of la Habana...Ciudad de la Habana...Matanzas...Villa Clara... Cienfuegos...Sancti Spiritus...Ciego de Avila...Camaguey...Las Tunas...Granma...Santiago de Cuba...Holguin and Guantanamo. A Hurricane Watch remains in effect for the Isle of Youth and the province of Pinar del Rio. A large portion of the warning area may be discontinued soon.
A Hurricane Warning is in effect for the lower Florida Keys from the Seven Mile Bridge westward to the Dry Tortugas. A Tropical Storm Warning and a Hurricane Watch are in effect for the remainder of the Florida Keys...east of the Seven Mile Bridge to Ocean Reef and Florida Bay.
A Hurricane Watch remains in effect for portions of the northeastern Gulf Coast from the Steinhatchee river westward to the mouth of the Pearl River. Hurricane warnings will likely be required for portions of this area early today.
A Tropical Storm Warning remains in effect along the Florida West Coast from Anclote Key southward...and along the Florida East Coast from Golden Beach southward.
A tropical storm watch is in effect for the southeastern Louisiana coast west of the mouth of the Pearl River to Grand Isle... including metropolitan New Orleans and Lake Ponchartrain.
A tropical storm watch remains in effect along the Florida West Coast from north of Anclote Key northward to east of the Steinhatchee river.
A hurricane or Tropical Storm Warning means that hurricane or tropical storm conditions...respectively...are expected within the warning area within the next 24 hours. Preparations to protect life and property should be rushed to completion in the Hurricane Warning area. A hurricane or tropical storm watch means that hurricane or tropical storm conditions...respectively...are possible within the watch area...generally within 36 hours.
Interests elsewhere in the northwestern Caribbean Sea...the eastern Gulf of Mexico...and Florida should monitor the progress of Dennis.
For storm information specific to your area...including possible inland watches and warnings...please monitor products issued by your local weather office.
At 1 am EDT...0500z...the eye of Hurricane Dennis was located by the Key West radar near latitude 23.3 north...longitude 82.3 west just north of the city of Havana or about about 95 miles...150 km... south-southwest of Key West Florida.
Dennis is moving toward the northwest near 14 mph...22 km/hr... and this general motion is expected to continue for the next 24 hours. This motion should move Dennis away from Cuba and bring the center to the southeastern Gulf of Mexico today.
Maximum sustained winds remain near 110 mph...175 km/hr...with higher gusts. Dennis is a category two hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Dennis is expected to re-intensify into a major hurricane as it moves over the southeastern Gulf of Mexico.
Hurricane force winds extend outward up to 65 miles...100 km... from the center...and tropical storm force winds extend outward up to 175 miles...280 km.
Estimated minimum central pressure is 962 mb...28.41 inches.
Dennis is expected to produce total rainfall accumulations of 4 to 8 inches across the central and southern Florida Peninsula...and the Florida Keys. Additional rain accumulations of 3 to 6 inches are expected over Cuba and Cayman Islands...with isolated maximum storm total amounts of 15 inches possible. These rains could produce life-threatening flash floods and mudslides.
Storm surge flooding of 5 to 10 feet above normal tide levels... along with large and dangerous battering waves...are still possible in areas of onshore winds along the south-central coast of Cuba. Higher values of storm will be possible in bays and inlets. A storm surge 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 today.
Isolated tornadoes will be possible over central and southern Florida Peninsula and the Florida Keys today.
Repeating the 1 am EDT position...23.3 N... 82.3 W. Movement toward...northwest near 14 mph. Maximum sustained winds...110 mph. Minimum central pressure... 962 mb.
An intermediate advisory will be issued by the National Hurricane Center at 3 am EDT followed by the next complete advisory at 5 am EDT.
Forecaster Avila
But authorities remained most concerned about Havana, home to 2.2 million of the nation's 11 million residents and a capital lined with hundreds of turn-of-the-20th century buildings already crumbling from old age and poor maintenance and unlikely to withstand the storm's full force.
''I don't even know why I'm doing this,'' one man in Havana's Playa neighborhood told The Herald after he tried to secure the doors and windows of his apartment. ``If it passes right over us, no amount of tape will hold these windows.''
Officials also worried that the 100,000 crudely constructed housing units on the outskirts of Havana could easily collapse under extreme weather, and that an ocean surge known in Havana as an ''invasion'' could again flood neighborhoods closest to the shore.
Those poor people. You are right, we probably will never see the full damage, because that egomaniac castro, probably wants to say how his communist Cuba survived a category 4 hurricane intact.
Not sure on that.
It's coming back fast. Not good news.
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