Hurricane Earl – Day 2
Position: 17.4N 87.6W [10PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: West [280°] near 15 mph [24 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 75 mph [120 kph].
Wind Gusts: 90 mph [135 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 140 miles [220 km].
Hurricane Wind Radius: 15 miles [ 30 km].
Minimum central pressure: 984 mb ↓.
Currently about 40 miles [ 65 km] East of Belize City.
A Hurricane Warning is in effect for Puerto Costa Maya, Mexico, southward to the Belize/Guatemala border.
A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for North of Puerto Costa Maya to Punta Allen, Mexico.
Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.
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Belize is a living memory for very few people here; Stella is one of them. Fortunately no hurricanes struck while she was there on some sort of anthropological project about a decade ago.
While the wind speed got up to 80mph, it moved through fairly quickly. Belize and the Yucatan have been the target of choice for tropical events lately.