Obersturmfury Dean – Monday
Dean has left Jamaica behind but is still subjecting the Cayman Islands to tropical storm force winds, and is moving across the deep warm waters of the northwestern Caribbean. At 10AM CDT Dean is maintaining 150 mph sustained winds with gusts to 185. It is currently moving West [285°] at 20 mph. That extra 5° brings Bahia de la Ascensión back into Dean’s sights as it is tracking a little more to the north.
It is still on track for strengthening to a Cat 5.
Oh, people on the Atlantic Coast need to start checking as Invest 92L has appeared out to the East. With the weird weather, it may recurve and strike Italy, but something to keep in mind.
4PM Update: it is now moving West [275°] at 19 mph. This brings it ashore further south between Ascensión and the border.
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D’ya think one of the Saturday-morning cartoon heroes could somehow redirect Invest-92L and make it produce ice storms, so that it miraculously repairs the Arctic ice that reached an all-time minimum a couple of days ago?
I didn’t think so. (Sigh.) OK, I’ll settle for its recurving toward Italy.
Dean still scares me… just not on my own behalf. Even if it’s not the worst ever, it’s bad enough.
(OT, it seems as if NFS is having problems again. DDOS redux? The offsite status site doesn’t say.)
Dean is a mindless mass of destruction that should scare anyone who thinks. If it stalls for any reason, if the steering ridge breaks down, this thing can still go anywhere.
Jeff Masters pointed out that after Erin got to Oklahoma it spun up and started to look like a tropical storm again, which is why Oklahoma had so much damage. That is flat strange.
OT: with my ISP anything could be going on and I would assume it was Embarq/Sprint.