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Posted on 08/19/2007 3:52:51 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Extremely dangerous Hurricane Dean is moving west-northwest through the Caribbean Sea. The current NHC forecast track indicates Dean's powerful center core will pass just south of the southwestern peninsula of Haiti, and should skirt Jamaica's southern shoreline. The storm maintained strong Category 4 wind status through the night during an eyewall replacement cycle. However, the minimum pressure supports Category 5, and additional strengthening of winds is likely.
Tourists in Jamaica crowded airports Saturday to leave the island nation. Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller addressed the Jamaican people, asking that everyone put aside their political differences and work together in advance of the imminent storm preceding Jamaica's general election scheduled for August 27. PM Miller announced that the Jamaican power grid and water would likely be shut down early Sunday morning in advance of the storm, and strongly urged citizens to seek shelter.
The United States and Barbados have pledged hurricane relief supplies and support to Jamaica as needed. No word yet from the United Nations...
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Thank you, Mod.
The radar shows this definitely has a northward component to movement....it likely will brush the southern edge of Jamaica, and that is bad for Kingston....will be close enough to get the big winds.
The last IR frame seems to show an intensification.
(the orange grew darker and more red appeared)
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/flt/t1/loop-avn.html
Oh no. Dear Lord, please push it south again.
Ya’ll don’t shoot the messenger now. Not everyone is a weather-porn junkie.
Thank you very much, casino!
I was at a DQ this afternoon in Los Fresnos. The main road going thru to South Padre Island. I saw one travel trailer after another leaving and lots of cars with stuff tied to the roof.
Jim is on live now giving a running commentary.
Click on the icon. They are going to live sources from Jamaica after Jim’s review of the weather situation.
Very well done!
It's all pretty now, just in time to get torn up!
I was speaking to someone online this am who has friends honeymooning on Jamaica, they didnt fly out in time.
This will be an unforgettable honeymoon, no doubt.
In some parts of the world, if you don’t follow the weather, you don’t live.
Just sayin’. ;)
LOL. I couldn’t get the screen name right so I just used your post . Figured they were here. Sorry.
Let’s hope. There’s still time/space for a miracle W jog.
Hmm, ‘weather porn’. That’s kinky.
Atlantic Floater 1 shows a wobble north then back to the west,,,
I still think it will pass to the south,,,very close...
I hope they'll come through unscathed. It's hard for many people to believe disaster can happen to them.
I think ours is ugly. I wish they has set it up like CC, where you could drive by the beach and the hotels are across the street. You can’t even tell you are on an island, really unless you drive aways north.
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