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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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I’m hoping it tracks west awhile before the next wobble,,,
It definately wont be a boring honeymoon.
145 mph sustained, 180 mph gusts.
http://icons.wunderground.com/data/images/at200704_sat_1.jpg
Hurricane City had a report of local fisherman getting permission from the government to break into a building to get up high.
Power has been cut off after 10:00 am.
“Power 106 FM” now running PSA’s regarding water contamination precautions.
do you know where to get a larger pic of that?
When these canes get this big/strong, don’t they tend to have minds of their own and ignore steering factors?
catching up...
Just caught on Fox the end of that amazing footage of the rescue in flooding Oklahoma
That ULL above the Yucatan isn’t moving all that fast - not sure if it will influence Dean or not. Any chance that ULL becomes tropical? They are forecasting T’storms here in SA starting Tuesday which is far too early for Dean.
I don’t know ,...it’s likely that Accuweather scaled it down and that NASA might have it somewhere.....I haven’t looked...but it is very interesting to see.....
Great gpraphic, the last couple of frames definately look due west. Good.
I wonder if those people are blogging live from Cancun again..
the end of the loop is about 30 min old now, so makes sense
“Power 106 FM” Jamaica reporting 180,000+ without power on the east end of Jamaica. Jamaica Public Service Company is weighing a decision to take down the entire power grid.
W ain't buying them, either.
Looks like the eye wall is going to hit the island.....
This isn’t good. Kingston is going to be hit by the strong end of the storm and get almost the full storm surge.
Thank You for the link. Listening. “More than 135 thousand without power.”
Good luck on getting it now. Even the local Family Dollar in La Porte was under siege!
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