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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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 Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 10:33 am Post subject: Hurricane Wilma |
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Who's seen the satellite imagery on Wilma?
It's huge! It looks like one of the megastorms from The Day after Tomorrow. |
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The Bobster
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 10:39 am Post subject: |
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Read about it. not seen the satlinks ...
If it hits land, looks like it willbe in Latin America. Most north of the Rio grane won't care so much ... as much as that says about us to9 our detriment. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 11:30 am Post subject: |
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Hurricane center: Deadly Wilma eyeing Florida
Category 5 storm prompts Keys evacuation
Wednesday, October 19, 2005; Posted: 2:13 p.m. EDT (18:13 GMT)
MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- The nation's chief hurricane forecaster said Wednesday if Hurricane Wilma hits Florida this weekend as predicted, it could result in many deaths and a tremendous storm surge.
Officials ordered non-residents in the Florida Keys to evacuate in advance of the dangerous Category 5 storm -- which is off Mexico.
"We had well over a thousand lives lost in Katrina," said Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center in Florida. "If Wilma comes into the Florida coast as a Category 3 or 4 hurricane, that potential for large loss of life is with us here with this hurricane."
Forecasters said the storm -- with 165 mph sustained winds -- registered the lowest-recorded barometric pressure of any Atlantic basin hurricane -- an indication of its intensity. (Watch Mayfield's warning about Hurricane Wilma -- 3:19)
At 2 p.m. ET, a hurricane warning was in effect from San Felipe to Tulum on the Yucatan Peninsula, including Cozumel, the hurricane center said.
The head of Haiti's civil protection agency, Maria Alta Jean-Baptiste, told The Associated Press that the storm's outer bands caused flooding and landslides that killed at least 11 people since Monday and forced at least 2,000 families from their homes.
"The situation is not catastrophic, but if the rains pick up, it could become very difficult for some people," Jean-Baptiste told AP.
As a tropical depression, Wilma already had been blamed for one death in Jamaica on Sunday, AP reported.
Forecasters said Wilma could make landfall along southwestern Florida as soon as the weekend with tropical storm force winds of at least 39 mph in the Keys beginning late Friday.
"I will assure you that if this one makes landfall on the Gulf Coast of Florida, there will be a tremendous storm surge," Mayfield said. "And if it's a Category 4, we could easily have 15 to 20 feet near and south of where the center crosses the coast with up to even 25 feet up into the bays and the rivers."
The storm set a record Wednesday when the NHC reported Wilma's barometric pressure at 882 millibars -- below the 1988 record of 888 millibars set by Hurricane Gilbert. Storms with low barometric pressure are typically more intense. |
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/10/19/wilma/index.html |
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Freezer Burn
Joined: 11 Apr 2005
Location: Busan
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rapier
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 9:08 pm Post subject: |
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Here it is: (image constantly updated)
Turning out to be quite a hurricane season. I wonder why? |
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Kwangjuchicken
Joined: 01 Sep 2003
Location: I was abducted by aliens on my way to Korea and forced to be an EFL teacher on this crazy planet.
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| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 4:53 am Post subject: |
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| rapier wrote: |
Here it is: (image constantly updated)
Turning out to be quite a hurricane season. I wonder why? |
I don't. |
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Kwangjuchicken
Joined: 01 Sep 2003
Location: I was abducted by aliens on my way to Korea and forced to be an EFL teacher on this crazy planet.
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| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 5:09 am Post subject: |
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| Luke 21: 11 Nation will rise against nation and kindom against kingdom. There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places.........25 And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars. On the Earth nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and the tossing of the sea...... |
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