Position: 20.5 N 72.4 W. [10 PM CDT]
Movement: Stationary.
Maximum sustained winds: 65 mph.
Wind Gusts: 75 mph.
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 200 miles.
Minimum central pressure: 988 mb.
It is 65 miles Southeast of Great Inagua Island.
It is looping in place.
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So at what point can people who fled Gustav go home, and won’t just have to leave again when one of these storms gets to hurricane strength?
“It is going backwards because the steering factors are such a mess”…
You mean kinda like McCain’s campaign?
I have been through volcanoes, Pacific winter storms, blizzards, wildfires, and earthquakes. I never dreamed I would ever be so fixated on any tropical cyclonic event as I am on this one. I might as well move down there…
The weird thing, Jack, is that two of the models predicted this, albeit a little further to the North. Haiti is taking a pasting.
Currently, it’s South Carolina as a Cat 1 on Friday, but I wouldn’t bet on it.