Yeah she's been doing that for a while. She's one of TWC's meteorologists and a hurricane hunter. Pretty cool and very hot indeed.
Jeff, check out that CDO of death on Dean. Hope there is no one there where landfall is about to take place. I'm calling it. Next advisory gusts to 200mph.
Whoa!!! Now the minimum central pressure is 909 mb. This makes it one of the most intense Atlantic hurricanes ever. #9 most intense if I remember my hurricane history correctly...
Pressure now at 907 mb and perhaps still dropping right before landfall. As a reference, Mitch and Camille were at 905 mb, and Katrina was at 902 mb, each at their peak. Looks like the city of Chetumal will be devastated. I'm not sure how large that city is, hopefully a lot of its residents evacuated.
Some of the models show that Dean will cross directly over into the Pacific- how good a possibility is there that it can gain signifigant strength if it does so? I seem to recall one hurricane that gained some strength back and went up into Arizona, causing tons of flooding.
Nicole Mitchell and Stephanie Abrams gives me a high pressure system to the south, my two favorite weather chicks.
From the Space Station: <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/FxFOm8BC4GE"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/FxFOm8BC4GE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object> Just in case ya'll haven't seen it, men.
There are four invests out there at the moment, but only one really with any chance of effecting the US at this point. It's down near where Dean got started and will pass through the Lesser Antillies tomorrow night probably as a depression or as just a wave. Not all of the models are even convinced it will develop and/or what it will do after it gets in the Caribbean. It's worth watching. It is very possible we could have two more named storms by the end of the weekend - the aforementioned invest and one off the Carolina coast that will move out to sea. But, there is very little predicted in the next week or so and only a moderate chance of a few waves developing off of Africa. The peak of hurricane season is in about 11 days. A lot can happen between now and the 15th or so of September. I still think there's a good chance we'll get 9 or 10 named storms by then and at least one or two more hurricanes. After that, there's still six weeks left in the season. Granted, the chances diminish greatly for the Texas coast by the 15th, but there is no reason to think we couldn't have 15 named storms before the end of October. Personally, I think we'll see two or three more hurricanes this season, maybe four. Hopefully, we won't have to deal with them in Houston.
TD6 Forms in Atlantic NEW YORK (Reuters) - A tropical wave in the Atlantic Ocean strengthened into Tropical Depression 6 late Friday and further strengthening was likely, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in its latest advisory. At about 5 p.m. EDT, TD6 was located about 180 miles (295 km) east-southeast of the Windward Islands, moving west at 16 mph with maximum sustained winds of 35 mph. The NHC expects further strengthening in the next 24 hours and said TD6 could become Tropical Storm Felix, the Atlantic hurricane season's sixth named storm, on Saturday. A tropical depression becomes a named tropical storm when wind speed climbs to 39 mph or greater. The current forecast track for the system shows it moving across the southern Caribbean, then making landfall on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula by Wednesday afternoon as a minimal Category 1 hurricane with winds of about 85 mph. Energy traders keep a close eye on storms that form in the Caribbean because they can enter the Gulf of Mexico and disrupt key oil and natural gas producing platforms or refineries located along the U.S. Gulf Coast. The NHC will issue an intermediate advisory at 8 p.m. followed by the next complete advisory at 11 p.m. Sucks for the Yucatan if they get hit again.
