Note that the headline on the thread is from four days ago.
Dropped to a Cat 2 about the time it hit PR around 12 hours ago.
Expected to restrengthen by some accounts.
New York Times had a story today totally about Dominica, yet the map they printed with the story did not have Dominica on it, or not pointed out.
I’m guessing that with their copy editors gone, someone thought Dominica and the Dominican Republic were the same thing and there was no one left to correct him.
Looks like it’s already getting its’ act back together.
All sources indicate sustained winds of 155 mph at 0635 Puerto Rico landfall this morning, and local radar was incapacitated shortly thereafter.
Your statement is incorrect. Maria was not a Category 2 storm about the time it hit Puerto Rico.
OK.
Funny, though that WU doesn’t show it ever having been a 5.