Hurricane Dean
The 10AM CDT position is 19.0 N 89.6 W.
Movement: West [280°] near 20 mph.
Maximum sustained winds: 105 mph [Cat 2].
Minimum central pressure: 950 millibars.
It is on track to enter the waters of the Bay of Campeche near the city of Campeche.
Update: at 1PM the sustained winds have dropped to 85 mph [Cat 1] and it is 45 miles south of Campeche about to enter the water.
Hurricane Dean powered ashore in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula this morning as a Category 5 hurricane with 165 mph winds. The pressure of 906 mb measured by the Hurricane Hunters shortly before landfall at 4:30am EDT is the ninth lowest on record for an Atlantic Basin hurricane, and the third lowest at landfall behind the 1935 Labor Day hurricane in the Florida Keys and Hurricane Gilbert of 1988 in Cancun Mexico. Dean is also the first Category 5 hurricane to make landfall in the Atlantic Basin since Andrew of 1992.
