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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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Well they’re obviously not FReepers or they would know! :)
Im predicting the eye will graze the south shore or come close. For an island 60 miles by 120 miles long thats going to hurt.
God Bless Them.
Well, I have to go to work for a couple of hours. No surprises while I'm gone, now, ok?
I “borrowed” that from one of the weather boards. ;)
I did read somewhere that many tourists didn’t leave, and many Jamaicans are mimimizing the hurricane. How much of that is accurate, not sure.
Cool link. Thanks!
Since AF304's gone home, we won't have vortex data messages for a while. Going through the archives to get general motion over the 4 runs, but because the center fix was not good the last 2 runs, take this with a grain of salt:
- Between 8:19 am EDT (the only run with a good dropsone drop in the eye) and 1:01 pm EDT (the last run), motion was 282 degrees at 19.3 mph.
- Between 9:58 am (the last run without a comment about undercast making a center fix impossible) and 1:01 pm, motion was 282 degrees at 20.1 mph.
- Between 11:22 am and 1:01 pm, motion was 279 degrees at 18.9 mph.
Lol!
Are you on S. Padre?
Suggestion; double-check the size of those graphics.
“I hope they’ll come through unscathed. It’s hard for many people to believe disaster can happen to them.”
You can already guess the name of their first son, nine months from now.
What did they just say about the Kingston report? Winds 22 knots?
I was beginning to think the radar was not keeping up, but the storm has slowed slightly. MIMIC seems behind too.
No, a little north of Corpus.
Missed it ....
Is this HAM radio we’re hearing?
Indeed!
The thing is, we’re too honorable to go around slinging mud; we just get the job done and get our backsides handed to us as a result. We seem not to know how to fight dirty like they do...Hey I’m glad we are above having the Carville/Begala types on our side, but today you don’t win many elections that way......
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