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Originally posted by AllSeeingI
This hurricane is going to Jamaica... then its going to Cuba.... then to the Yucatan, on to Texas... Louisiana....
and then its going to WASHINGTON. YEAAAAAWW!
-Hurricane Dean
Originally posted by AllSeeingI
This hurricane is going to Jamaica... then its going to Cuba.... then to the Yucatan, on to Texas... Louisiana....
and then its going to WASHINGTON. YEAAAAAWW!
-Hurricane Dean
Originally posted by Indy
As of 2am Dean has sustained winds of 150mph. Central pressure is down to 930mb. It has slowed from 23mph to 18mph with the forward progress. While the slowing of forward speed doesn't sound like much it can have a huge impact on if/when the storm turns more north of west-northwest. It can mean the difference between making landfall along the Yucatan peninsula or missing it and making it clean into the Gulf of Mexico.
Making it clean into the Gulf is a bad thing. A high probability path would be to take it somewhere Corpus Christi and Galveston. As you may have noticed in a previous image of Gulf sea surface temperatures the storm would travel a great distance over the warmest of waters anywhere in this region of the world. It would absolutely support category five winds all the way to the Texas coast. Only eye-wall replacement cycles and storm structure changes would weaken the storm before landfall. And even they you'd likely see the storm hit as a category four. I think by noon Saturday we will have a pretty good idea whether this storm is going to go straight into Mexico around Cozumel (again) or up into the Gulf and threaten land from Texas to Lousiana.
More tomorrow. I am off to bed.
Originally posted by darkheartrising
reply to post by Indy
it is important to note that a refinery fire in Pascagoula Mississippi shut down that Chevron refinery (one of the largest in the nation BTW) and if this hurricane damages the offshore platforms again this could be very bad news for the price of gas...add the declining dollar and bad markets and we could be in for a very, very rough time ahead..
[edit on 17-8-2007 by darkheartrising]