ummm...just out of curiosity...at what point do the pressure in millibars and the expected wind velocity equal each other?
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chin up peoples, this thing has to leave the loop current before it can get ashore. In the case of hurricanes, colder water is a good thing.
It's not theoretically possible for mb to match wind speed. :p
No way she will hold such strength all the way till landfall IMO. Though, I think she isn;t done strengthening yet. I would not be surprised to see sustained between 180-190 at some point in the next 24 hours.
Even is she weakens back to cat 4, there will likely be another catastrophic storm surge event upcoming.