Hurricane Wilma -
10-19-2005, 07:24 AM
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[url=http://www.weather.com/newscenter/tropical/?from=wxcenter_news:14a7d]Confirmed: Hurricane Wilma most intense on record[/url:14a7d]
8:30 a.m. ET 10/19/2005
B. Bernard, Senior Meteorologist, The Weather Channel
It's been confirmed: Hurricane Wilma, with a pressure of 882 mb, is the most intense hurricane on record in the Atlantic Basin. Wilma, after undergoing a stunning intensifcation overnight, is now a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane packing sustained winds of 175 mph. The eye of the violent storm is now following a wobbling WNW track through the western Caribbean with a turn toward the NW expected within the next 24 hours.
Fluctuations in intensity are likely, but Wilma is forecast to remain an extremely dangerous Category 5 hurricane through Thursday. The projected track of the storm takes it through the Yucatan Channel into the extreme southern Gulf of Mexico Friday night. After that, Wilma is expected to come under the influence of westerly winds aloft blowing across the Gulf. That should hurl the hurricane toward the Florida Peninsula, probably the southern part of the peninsula, this weekend. Wilma is expected to be weakening by then, but weakening is a relative term and Wilma may still be a major hurricane (winds over 110 mph) when it makes landfall.
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That's almost as powerful as one of Zoner's farts! ed:
DEATH TO FLORIDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!
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