CAT 5 Hurricane Dean - Archived threads

[HURAKAN]

Jamaica awaits Dean:

[MusicCityMan]

Is the eye going to hit the coast or stay just off it? If it just stays off it.. that'll be OK news or at least better news for jamaica, but terrible news for the Yucatan and Cancun because it'll give Dean a chance to ramp up to Cat 5 before landfall..

[weatherman21]

18:45Z IR

[Matt-hurricanewatcher]

Took a little longer then I thought last night. But now that the outter eye is taking over fast. In so reds are wraping around it fast, expect pressure to go down to sub 920s by 8pm maybe 11pm. In I expect a cat5 by 5am est if everything falls into place.

[MusicCityMan]

Dean still looks beautiful on satellite by the way.. Shame he's going to be on his way to a retirable amount of destruction..

[DESTRUCTION5]

Dean is just simply stunning....

[Cape Verde]

Awesome photos, weatherman21. Thanks!

[Sanibel]

Personal opinion not endorsed by Storm2k:


You can see hard, core bands are over Kingston. I'll risk saying they are under hurricane fury right now.

Eye should miss, but close enough pass for next worse scenario I'm afraid.

[weatherman21]

Visible Satellite at 19:01Z

[wbug1]

Major blowup of convection all the way around now, IR looks like cat 4, water vapor from satellite looks like going to cat 5. Looks like probable significant damage to Jamaica, particularly the western half as the storm intensifies as it grazes Jamaica.

[aguaviva]

hopefully an optical illusion but it seems to be getting much closer.....

[Aric Dunn]

Personal opinion not endorsed by Storm2k:


You can see hard, core bands are over Kingston. I'll risk saying they are under hurricane fury right now.

Eye should miss, but close enough pass for next worse scenario I'm afraid.

there reporting 12 mph wind

from the nne which i believe the mountains may protecting them till it gets south of them and the wind veer around to the se then its going to get bad

[Hurricanevideo]

Live Hurricane Chaser coverage from Kingston, Jamaica. Hurricane Chaser Jim Edds on location and updating with pictures and video. http://www.stormvideographer.com/blog/

[cheezyWXguy]

Personal opinion not endorsed by Storm2k:


You can see hard, core bands are over Kingston. I'll risk saying they are under hurricane fury right now.

Eye should miss, but close enough pass for next worse scenario I'm afraid.

there reporting 12 mph wind

from the nne which i believe the mountains may protecting them till it gets south of them and the wind veer around to the se then its going to get bad

I dont know what youre seeing, but on that windfield map kingston says 62, not 12mph

[fci]

Yes, at 3:00 PM they report North wind at 9; Barometer 998.3 and falling.

http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/MKJP.html

[Sanibel]

Too bad you can't see the readings from Portland Point (That very southern tip of the island)

Aric: The power could be shut off and that was the last reading. Though I agree the worst is well south

[MusicCityMan]

62 mph is strong tropical storm.. almost hurricane force as dean approaches

[Brent]

South coast where Kingston is is going to get the worst of it, don't think they will get lucky like with Ivan.

[tolakram]

[vacanechaser]

Live Hurricane Chaser coverage from Kingston, Jamaica. Hurricane Chaser Jim Edds on location and updating with pictures and video. http://www.stormvideographer.com/blog/

hey jeff, looks like jim may have missed the worst on this one... leonard is there too... maybe they should have gone to the yucatan.. lol.. looking forward to seeing his vid... thanx for the updates



Jesse V. Bass III
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Hurricane Intercept Research Team