Hurricane Wilma - Cat. 5

[HURAKAN]

After Wilma, could the name of Cozumel be changed to Consumedmel or Consumed-mel! Poor people, our prayers are with them.

[Blown Away]

Is there Cancun radar link?? I can't find it! Thanks

Theres a link in the stickys on forum main page

I looked at the radar section, no options for Cancun mexico??

HUH? That is the Cancun radar.

[jpigott]

looking better for Florida by the minute, not so good for Cozumel and Cancun however. If Wilma spends 24+ hours over the Yucatan she won't be a cane' coming out on the other end. Wilma needs to head almost due north to avoid a landfall in the Yucatan. That said if she stays offshore FL could still have a beast to deal with in a couple of days

[tampastorm]

looks like Wilma has stalled right off of Cozumel

I dont think it stalled slowed down, yes. And still mostly over open water.

[gilbert88]

After Wilma, could the name of Cozumel be changed to Consumedmel or Consumed-mel! Poor people, our prayers are with them.

Does anyone know if Cozumel was evacuated?

[cycloneye]

Folks if Wilma spends more than 30 hours in the Yucatan when it emerges in the GOM it well be a Tropical Storm.The bottomline is the time that she will spent in the Yucatan will be the key on how strong it will go to Florida.

[DESTRUCTION5]

Folks if Wilma spends more than 30 hours in the Yucatan when it emerges in the GOM it well be a Tropical Storm.The bottomline is the time that she will spent in the Yucatan will be the key on how strong it will go to Florida.

Well Said Luis...

[Eyes2theSkies]

If she stalls just off the coast will that weaken her also???

[HURAKAN]

If she stalls just off the coast will that weaken her also???

But not as much as if she goes over land, that's the bottom line.

[DESTRUCTION5]

If she stalls just off the coast will that weaken her also???

She's stll moving now...4-6 MPPH...

[cycloneye]

If she stalls just off the coast will that weaken her also???

Yes depends on how much time she spends just offshore if that occurs because she may cause upwelling of the waters if it sits offshore and then cool those waters.

[otowntiger]

The YP is NOT going to slow this girl down much at all:

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT ... IR4/20.jpg

She's already weakening. The lR loop shows that her cloud tops began to warm just as her outer eyewall began to interact with land. I say she is going to be weakened a lot by the YP. There will be devastation there though for sure and undoubdedtly already a lot of damage in Cozumel. My guess is that she will be a cat 1 when she emerges into the Gulf. Also her radar presentation is quite ragged now.

[cinlfla]

This is the GFS 72 hours 12z

[vbhoutex]

Looks like an ERC may be starting again. Definitely signs of another outer eyewall forming on the latest radar with the inner one startig to shrink. Am I seeing things?

[DESTRUCTION5]

This is the GFS 72 hours 12z

Still Showing a Major Cane there

[DESTRUCTION5]

Looks like an ERC may be starting again. Definitely signs of another outer eyewall forming on the latest radar with the inner one startig to shrink. Am I seeing things?

I think its land interaction...

[chris_fit]

Looks like an ERC may be starting again. Definitely signs of another outer eyewall forming on the latest radar with the inner one startig to shrink. Am I seeing things?

IMO just an illusion as the radar cannot penetrate those torrential rains.

[markymark8]

Looks like Wilma has slowed down a bunch just like the NHC forecasted and shes quit jogging to the NNWEST and more to the NW. This is great news for Florida because she might stall out or move slowley enough to be over land for quite a while to weaken her alot maybe even to a weak cat 2 or cat 1 depending how this all pans out. You got to give the NHC credit they seem to be right on the money on what they said would happen and its track. Florida just needs to hope she stalls over the Yucatan and moves real slowleeeeey. I feel bad for the Yucatan though they will get a serious pounding. I hate to see the damage pictures from there the next couple of days. The eye looks real impressive right now. Notice the vortexes in her eye. She is one mean monster with alot of tonados in her it seems. http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT ... VIS/20.jpg

[littlevince]

Station: Cancun
Location: Longitud: -86.77583 latitud: 21.07500

Conditions at 21/10/2005/13:40 GMT

Wind Direction:
Wind Speed: 128.10 km/h
Wind Gust: 153.60 km/h
Atmospheric Pressure: 981.30 mb

http://smn.cna.gob.mx/productos/emas/txt/QR01_10M.TXT

[vbhoutex]

Curious as to how you can determine she has a lot of tornados in her??? I understand what a vortex/vorieces are, but they are not tornados in this instance, at least not in the eye.