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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

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To: steveegg

892 mb.Unbelievable.


381 posted on 10/18/2005 11:42:11 PM PDT by HelloooClareece (Another proud member of the Water Bucket Brigade)
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To: HelloooClareece

Did Rita or Katrina get that low?


382 posted on 10/18/2005 11:44:51 PM PDT by sordidmesh
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To: sordidmesh

Nope.


383 posted on 10/18/2005 11:46:14 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: Strategerist
The latest from the Hurricane Hunters -

000
106 
URNT12 KNHC 190648
VORTEX DATA MESSAGE
A. 19/06:11:10Z
B. 16 deg 58 min N
  082 deg 11 min W
C. 700 mb 2132 m
D. NA  kt
E. NA  deg     nm
F. 202 deg 168 kt
G. 109 deg 003 nm
H. EXTRAP  892 mb
I.  10 C/ 3058 m
J.  24 C/ 3034 m
K.  11 C/ NA
L. CLOSED
M. C2
N. 12345/ 7
O. 0.02 / 1  nm
P. AF308 0724A WILMA        OB 12
MAX FL WIND 168 KT SE QUAD 06:10:20 Z
SLP EXTRAP FROM 700 MB

384 posted on 10/18/2005 11:49:27 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: sordidmesh

No. Gilbert was the lowest as I recall at 888 mb. Not too far to go. Wow.


385 posted on 10/18/2005 11:51:22 PM PDT by HelloooClareece (Another proud member of the Water Bucket Brigade)
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To: steveegg

Holy cow! (again)


386 posted on 10/18/2005 11:51:24 PM PDT by Termite_Commander (Warning: Cynical Right-winger Ahead)
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To: Termite_Commander

They just said on The Weather Channel that Wilma's eye is 2 miles across.


387 posted on 10/18/2005 11:52:53 PM PDT by Termite_Commander (Warning: Cynical Right-winger Ahead)
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To: steveegg
Looks like Wilma is determined to outdo her sisters Katrina and Rita. Just when you think this hurricane season can't pull any more surprises, it does.

But you know what worries me even more? I wonder what next year is going to be like.

388 posted on 10/18/2005 11:54:30 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
Why would Karl Rove do that?
389 posted on 10/18/2005 11:57:19 PM PDT by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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To: Termite_Commander
Significant changes from the previous eye fix 1:39 ago -
390 posted on 10/18/2005 11:57:34 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: Termite_Commander
They just said on The Weather Channel that Wilma's eye is 2 miles across.

Forgot to mention that in my significant changes post. We've now gone from an 8 nm eye to a 4 nm eye to a 2 nm eye.

391 posted on 10/18/2005 11:59:45 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: Termite_Commander
They just said on The Weather Channel that Wilma's eye is 2 miles across.

Talk about a pinhole! No wonder she's so intense.

Well, if she keeps this up, Wilma will break another record: first hurricane with an eye narrower than Ted Kennedy.

392 posted on 10/18/2005 11:59:51 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
Well, if she keeps this up, Wilma will break another record: first hurricane with an eye narrower than Ted Kennedy.

Actually, she already broke that one; The Swimmer is 2.5 nm wide :-)

393 posted on 10/19/2005 12:00:39 AM PDT by steveegg (Tagline withheld until we know whether Miers will be a younger O'Connor or Roberts' soulmate)
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To: NautiNurse
I don't claim any expertise in this arena, but after living in FL for the past two years, and evacuating twice (Ivan and Dennis), I've heard so much about how the warm gulf waters will feed a hurricane to make it stronger. As I look at the current satellite maps of the water temperature (surface) in the gulf, the water doesn't look too darned warm. Up here in the panhandle the charts look as if the water is in the high 60s. If that storm heads more northerly than currently predicted wouldn't one expect it to weaken as it progresses into the colder water?
394 posted on 10/19/2005 12:01:07 AM PDT by RavenATB (Patton was right...)
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To: Petronski

Unless this one's aimed at Castro, this ain't Rove's doing.


395 posted on 10/19/2005 12:01:27 AM PDT by steveegg (Tagline withheld until we know whether Miers will be a younger O'Connor or Roberts' soulmate)
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To: laz

I wonder what next year is going to be like

1933 was as active as this year but the following year it was relatively quiet so hopefully not too bad. I say that with all of the optimism a FL Panhandler can muster.


396 posted on 10/19/2005 12:02:36 AM PDT by HelloooClareece (Another proud member of the Water Bucket Brigade)
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To: laz

My sentiments exactly, Laz -- I'm leaving Louisiana ASAP. I don't intend to be around for next year's hurricane season!


397 posted on 10/19/2005 12:03:51 AM PDT by buickmackane ("I went into the fortune teller/Who said 'Beware of lightning that might strike' "--Bob Dylan)
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To: HelloooClareece
1933 was as active as this year but the following year it was relatively quiet so hopefully not too bad. I say that with all of the optimism a FL Panhandler can muster.

I'll posit that 1933 was busier. They didn't have satellites and hurricane-hunter planes back then, so unless a hurricane blasted onto land where people were or a ship blundered into it, nobody knew.

398 posted on 10/19/2005 12:04:27 AM PDT by steveegg (Tagline withheld until we know whether Miers will be a younger O'Connor or Roberts' soulmate)
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To: Termite_Commander

Looks like they didn't do a very good job with predictions on this chart.
399 posted on 10/19/2005 12:04:27 AM PDT by Termite_Commander (Warning: Cynical Right-winger Ahead)
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To: Petronski
Why would Karl Rove do that?

Can't be Rove. It must be those Japanese gangsters. Looks like they got the hang of it now.

400 posted on 10/19/2005 12:08:55 AM 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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