Post by Enrique on Sept 2, 2007 17:59:55 GMT -5
Update for Hurricane Felix:
The nightmare continues for the Yucatan.
At 02/2100Z, Hurricane Felix was upgraded to Category 4 status, the second major hurricane in the Atlantic in less than three weeks. Tropical storm advisories in effect for Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, but in reality, the coastline from Honduras to about the U.S.-Mexico border needs to look out for Felix. The storm is forecasted to be borderline Category 5 status and, at the lastest forecast, expected to make landfall just south of the Belize-Mexico border.
Particularly in the past 12 hours - even the past 24 hours - Felix has taken quite the impressive leap in strength. Not quite Wilma-impressive, but more like Dean just a few weeks ago. Impressive enough to pay extremely serious attention to.
Addendum: As of the 03/0000Z special advisory, Felix was officially upgraded to Category 5 strength at max. sust. winds of 145 mph... and is still intensifying. In fact, the hurricane hunters had to abort their most recent mission because graupel - supercooled water droplets condensing and freezing on a snowflake - was contaminating the data that they were receiving.
The nightmare continues for the Yucatan.
At 02/2100Z, Hurricane Felix was upgraded to Category 4 status, the second major hurricane in the Atlantic in less than three weeks. Tropical storm advisories in effect for Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, but in reality, the coastline from Honduras to about the U.S.-Mexico border needs to look out for Felix. The storm is forecasted to be borderline Category 5 status and, at the lastest forecast, expected to make landfall just south of the Belize-Mexico border.
Particularly in the past 12 hours - even the past 24 hours - Felix has taken quite the impressive leap in strength. Not quite Wilma-impressive, but more like Dean just a few weeks ago. Impressive enough to pay extremely serious attention to.
Addendum: As of the 03/0000Z special advisory, Felix was officially upgraded to Category 5 strength at max. sust. winds of 145 mph... and is still intensifying. In fact, the hurricane hunters had to abort their most recent mission because graupel - supercooled water droplets condensing and freezing on a snowflake - was contaminating the data that they were receiving.