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Hurricane Wilma Live Thread (As of 2:30 am EDT, Wilma is a Category 5 with 175-mph winds )
NHC - NOAA ^ | 18 October 2005 | NHC - NOAA

Posted on 10/18/2005 7:40:22 AM PDT by NautiNurse

Hurricane Wilma has formed in the NW Caribbean Sea. The NHC forecast indicates she will emerge into the Gulf of Mexico as a major Category Three storm. Current forecase models indicate a Florida peninsula landfall.

The following links are self-updating:

Public Advisory Currently published every 3 hours 0500, 0800, 1100 etc. ET
NHC Discussion Published every six hours 0500, 1100, 1700, 2300 ET
Three Day Forecast Track
Five Day Forecast Track

Wilma Forecast Track Archive
Forecast Models
Buoy Data SE Florida
Current Weather Warnings and Watches for Florida

Images:

Storm Floater IR Loop
Visible Storm Floater Still (only visible during daylight hours)
Color Enhanced Atlantic Loop
Florida Radar/Sat Loop Caution: Broadband users only
Extra Large Miami Radar Broadband only
Extra Large Key West Radar Broadband only
Miami Long Range Radar Loop
Key West Long Range Radar Loop
Miami Experimental Radar Still Image
Key West Experimental Radar Still Image

Category Wind Speed Barometric Pressure Storm Surge Damage Potential
Tropical
Depression
< 39 mph
< 34 kts
    Minimal
Tropical
Storm
39 - 73 mph
34 - 63 kts
    Minimal
Hurricane 1
(Weak)
74 - 95 mph
64 - 82 kts
28.94" or more
980.02 mb or more
4.0' - 5.0'
1.2 m - 1.5 m
Minimal damage to vegetation
Hurricane 2
(Moderate)
96 - 110 mph
83 - 95 kts
28.50" - 28.93"
965.12 mb - 979.68 mb
6.0' - 8.0'
1.8 m - 2.4 m
Moderate damage to houses
Hurricane 3
(Strong)
111 - 130 mph
96 - 112 kts
27.91" - 28.49"
945.14 mb - 964.78 mb
9.0' - 12.0'
2.7 m - 3.7 m
Extensive damage to small buildings
Hurricane 4
(Very strong)
131 - 155 mph
113 - 135 kts
27.17" - 27.90"
920.08 mb - 944.80 mb
13.0' - 18.0'
3.9 m - 5.5 m
Extreme structural damage
Hurricane 5
(Devastating)
Greater than 155 mph
Greater than 135 kts
Less than 27.17"
Less than 920.08 mb
Greater than 18.0'
Greater than 5.5m
Catastrophic building failures possible


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: hurricane; notbreakingnews; tropical; weather; wilma
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To: laz

I'm very sorry for your loss, Laz.

I mentioned in an earlier post that I have a friend who works on a cruise ship based out of Honolulu. His family lives in Miami, so he's home between assignments.

I knew that he has to be back at work on the ship by this weekend, so I called to wake him up when I saw Wilma's progress overnight. I figured he'd want to call his airline right away and switch to an earlier flight before everyone else got the same idea.

He didn't seem to take me seriously, though. He's one of those "manana" type men, and me, I'm the type of person who wants everything done yesterday. "Let's see what happens" is his mantra. I felt I was like Linda Greenlaw screaming at Billy Tyne in "The Perfect Storm."

Oh well, I hope he brings plenty of extra cartridges for his Nintendo system -- I have a feeling he's going to spend the weekend camped out in the airport, sigh...


1,181 posted on 10/19/2005 8:20:14 PM PDT by buickmackane ("I went into the fortune teller/Who said 'Beware of lightning that might strike' "--Bob Dylan)
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To: CFC__VRWC
a radar system called VIPIR

WFLA ch8 in Tampa uses it; Steve Jerve and VIPIR called Charlie's jog into Punta Gorda last year. They haven't been nearly as close since.

1,182 posted on 10/19/2005 8:22:07 PM PDT by grwcfl537 (Pasco at the confluence of Hillsborough and Pinellas)
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To: NautiNurse

According to this link, Wilma at 894 mb, has the 3rd lowest pressure on record.

http://www.hurricaneville.com/all_time_storms.php


1,183 posted on 10/19/2005 8:23:15 PM PDT by TheLion
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To: blam
Are you suggesting that the hurricane brought 'something' in?

Well, yeah. Besides this whatever it is we are hacking up... I have 4 kittens now. Never seen them before. We brought our cats with us... who are neutered. Come home, and here are these four half starved kittens. Not exactly coffee weed... what is coffee weed?

1,184 posted on 10/19/2005 8:23:35 PM PDT by exhaustedmomma (Calling illegal alien an undocumented immigrant is like calling a burglar an uninvited house guest)
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To: laz

Happy for your niece. I've found unoccupied homemade rafts far out in the Gulf Stream at times, wondered if the crews made it OK or not.


1,185 posted on 10/19/2005 8:24:23 PM PDT by Sam Cree (absolute reality - Miami)
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To: TheLion

Wilma was down to 882mb this morning, making her the lowest pressure on record for the Atlantic basin.


1,186 posted on 10/19/2005 8:26:34 PM PDT by NautiNurse
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To: grwcfl537

That's what I was watching. I didn't see them call Charley - I was all the way up in DeLand working then, and was still expecting it to pass west of Tampa. I was on my way back home (eastern Polk), somewhere up in Lake County (avoiding the I-4 parking lot), when it made that jog. I just barely made it home in time to throw a bunch of stuff into the back of my truck, gather up my critters (except for the cat - she went under the bed and I could not get her out) and bug out to my grandmother's house to ride it out.


1,187 posted on 10/19/2005 8:29:12 PM PDT by CFC__VRWC ("Anytime a liberal squeals in outrage, an angel gets its wings!" - gidget7)
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To: TheLion

I've often congectured that we will one day be hit by a storm that has not yet been on the books....who knows.


1,188 posted on 10/19/2005 8:30:05 PM PDT by TheLion
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To: exhaustedmomma
"what is coffee weed?"

Just a weed that pops up everwhere around this area.

I did a search on 'coffee weed' and got a lot of Amsterdam coffee shops, lol.

1,189 posted on 10/19/2005 8:34:38 PM PDT by blam
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To: TheLion

That link is now outdated. Wilma ranks #1 with 882 mb earlier today.


1,190 posted on 10/19/2005 8:36:05 PM PDT by laz (They can bus 'em to the polls, but they can't bus 'em out of the path of a Cat 5 hurricane.)
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To: laz

882 is pretty amazing!


1,191 posted on 10/19/2005 8:40:10 PM PDT by TheLion
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To: buickmackane
I'm very sorry for your loss, Laz.

Thank you.

I could probably write a book about my family's adventures. Both my parents are from Cuba, and they fled to the US in '61. I was born in NYC in '62. My father was a radio announcer in Cuba and originally supported Castro and worked with him, then turned against him when he found out Castro was a communist. Castro's people almost killed him. My mother's family had to hide my father in their basement for weeks until he was able to sneak out and go to Jamaica. From Jamaica, he went to Miami, where he met with CIA and told them everything he knew about Castro. From Miami, he went to Boston, then finally to New York. My mother fled via Jamaica a few months later and met up with him in New York.

Over the past forty years, about half my family has made it to the US, including an aunt and uncle who came in '80 with the Marielitos. Thankfully, only one member has died making the attempt.

1,192 posted on 10/19/2005 8:48:14 PM PDT by laz (They can bus 'em to the polls, but they can't bus 'em out of the path of a Cat 5 hurricane.)
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To: steveegg; NautiNurse

I'm at 43N 71W, and the 120 hour forecast is coming close. All our big hemlocks have saturated root systems after all the rain this month, if we get a big wind (OK, OK big FOR HERE), we'd better duck.


1,193 posted on 10/19/2005 8:48:22 PM PDT by Jim Noble (In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act - Orwell)
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To: Sam Cree

God only knows how many have drowned.


1,194 posted on 10/19/2005 8:50:39 PM PDT by laz (They can bus 'em to the polls, but they can't bus 'em out of the path of a Cat 5 hurricane.)
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To: Jim Noble
Hardwoods take a beating during hurricanes that drive inland too. Jackson MS area had a lot of problems from Katrina.

fyi - new thread coming up very shortly.

1,195 posted on 10/19/2005 8:53:34 PM PDT by NautiNurse
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To: Jim Noble

That does not sound encouraging. Good luck, and may that 120-hour forecast be off.


1,196 posted on 10/19/2005 8:53:51 PM PDT by steveegg (Tagline withheld until we know whether Miers will be a younger O'Connor or Roberts' soulmate)
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To: blam; All
Sorry but gotta say this... ASTROS are IN THE WORLD SERIES!!!! WAHOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1,197 posted on 10/19/2005 8:54:24 PM PDT by exhaustedmomma (Calling illegal alien an undocumented immigrant is like calling a burglar an uninvited house guest)
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To: exhaustedmomma

Thank you, I refrained earlier trying to catch up on the thread.


1,198 posted on 10/19/2005 9:00:47 PM PDT by SouthTexas (Just say NO to New Orleans.)
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To: exhaustedmomma

Whohoo Astros.......and now back to our regularly scheduled Hurricane........lol


1,199 posted on 10/19/2005 9:01:52 PM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Prayers for healing and relief from pain for Cowboy...........)
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To: laz
Personally, I think every Cuban that makes it here should be allowed to stay. EVERY escapee from a communist country should be allowed to stay.

I lady I work with escaped from Cuba in the early '60s. A few months ago I gave her a target that I used at the range. It was a picture of Fidel giving a speech.

She hung it up in her cube for the world to see. Funny thing is not a damn person in our very PC workplace has said a thing about it.

That said, I think if this storm doesn't pick up a little more forward movement soon it may just jink back over the Keys or Cuba.

1,200 posted on 10/19/2005 9:04:02 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (When a Jihadist dies, an angel gets its wings)
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