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Posted on 10/18/2005 7:40:22 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Prayers for those in the path of the storm.
That's a relief, thanks!
I wonder how this is going to affect air traffic out of Florida now. I have a friend who works on a cruise ship based in Honolulu, and he came back to Miami to visit his family in between assignments. I sure hope he gets out of there in time for his next cruise this weekend!
If he's out of there by Thursday PM, he should be good. Friday may start to get dicey depending on how fat Wilma gets.
New Orleans won't get hit again will it?
A blizzicane? A hurrizard? =P
Nope. The furthest north/west computer model has Wilma going right over Tampa, another has her going in where Dennis did, another has Cape Coral, and the rest have the Everglades (except for one "outlier" that has Cuba getting smacked from one end to the other).
that's what I am saying...
for all intents and purposes, this thing decided to skip CAT 2 and 3 (well most of CAT 2) and jump right up to CAT 4...
We should get a couple more passes from the hunters before the 5 am full update.
One of those you heard was me. I'm still awake here in Miami, wide awake, after reading about that pressure drop and the increase in wind speed. She's bombing out faster than Rita!
Good luck. Unless Wilma has a thing for Fidel, you'll need it.
All we need is Fred to come down to the Caribbean to set her straight :-)
If you have relatives vacationing in and around Cancun or Cozumel, I'd seriously call and wake them up now and get them to book a flight out before the rush.
another has her going in where Dennis did,
Oh no. I'll never forget being 9 months pregnant and sleeping in my VW Bug after Dennis killed the electricity for a week. If I may, which model shows it coming to the panhandle?
Avila just put out a special update; Cat 5, 175 mph winds, pressure 892 mb.
000 WTNT64 KNHC 190629 TCUAT4 HURRICANE WILMA TROPICAL CYCLONE UPDATE NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 230 AM EDT WED OCT 19 2005 DATA FROM A RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT INDICATE THAT HURRICANE WILMA HAS BECOME AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS CATEGORY FIVE HURRICANE ON THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON HURRICANE SCALE. THE RECONNAISSANCE PLANE MEASURED 175 MPH WINDS AND ESTIMATED A MINIMUM PRESSURE OF 892 MB. THIS IS THE LOWEST PRESSURE OBSERVED IN 2005 AND IS EQUIVALENT TO THE MINIMUM PRESSURE OF THE 1935 LABOR DAY HURRICANE IN THE FLORIDA KEYS.
I wonder what will happen once it is passed Florida and into the Atlantic. Will reform and hit up North East Coast as Hurricane?
That expletive I heard from Florida changed from the S-word to the F-word, followed by a longer, indeterminate string of expletives.
There are no useful models at the moment with a landfall further North than Fort Myers FL. Unfortunately a lot of "model" sites include old, antiquated models that NHC ignores in their Spaghetti plots.
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