Tropical Storm Irene – Day 2
Position: 17.9N 65.5W [10PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: West-Northwest [285°] near 15 mph [24 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 70 mph [110 kph].
Wind Gusts: 85 mph [140 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 150 miles [240 km].
Minimum central pressure: 993 mb ↓.
Currently about 50 miles [ 80 km] Southeast of Ponce, Puerto Rico and 50 miles [80 km] West-Northwest of St. Croix.
A Hurricane Warning is in effect for Puerto Rico, Vieques, Culebrathe and the coast of the Dominican Republic.
A Hurricane Watch is in effect for U.S. Virgin Islands and the central Bahamas.
A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for U.S. Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands, Haiti, and the southeastern Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.
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2 comments
It sure is awful that so many different places can be affected by one storm.
What’s really bad is how low a lot of those places are, so there is nothing to slow the wind, and the waves really go inland a good ways. They are beautiful in the winter, when there is 6-foot of snow at ‘home’, but they are no place to be during a tropical storm, much less a hurricane.