Don’t remember seeing this top wind gust out of Kingston before - 138 mph.
Don’t think I saw that either, but it wouldn’t surprise me as close as the eye actually came to the island.
HAPAG-LLOYD Large Container ship Hoechst Express
(photo here:
http://www.shipphotos.co.uk/pages/hoechstexpress.htm)
is coming up behind the storm and reporting as of 4 hours ago:
Wind from 170 at 35 knots
Waves 4.0 meters (13 feet), 4 second period
Barometer 1006.0 mb
Air temperature 29.0 ° C
Dewpoint 26.0 ° C
Water temperature 29.0 ° C
This storm is about to cut just south of an area saturated with buoys!!
http://www.sailwx.info/shiptrack/shiplocations.phtml