...EXTREMELY DANGEROUS ISABEL NOW AT CATEGORY FIVE INTENSITY...
SATELLITE IMAGES INDICATE THAT HURRICANE ISABEL HAS CONTINUED TO
STRENGTHEN...AND HAS REACHED CATEGORY FIVE INTENSITY ON THE
SAFFIR-SIMPSON HURRICANE SCALE. ISABEL IS THE FIRST CATEGORY FIVE
HURRICANE IN THE ATLANTIC BASIN SINCE MITCH OF 1998.
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 160 MPH...260 KM/HR...WITH HIGHER
GUSTS. SOME FLUCTUATIONS IN INTENSITY ARE LIKELY OVER THE NEXT
24 HOURS.
HURRICANE FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 60 MILES... 95 KM...
FROM THE CENTER...AND TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP
TO 185 MILES...295 KM.
ESTIMATED MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE IS 921 MB...27.20 INCHES.
LARGE OCEAN SWELLS AND DANGEROUS SURF CONDITIONS ARE LIKELY OVER
PORTIONS OF THE LEEWARD ISLANDS...THE VIRGIN ISLANDS...AND PUERTO
RICO OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS.
REPEATING THE 5 PM AST POSITION...21.6 N... 55.3 W. MOVEMENT
TOWARD...WEST NEAR 9 MPH. MAXIMUM SUSTAINED
WINDS...160 MPH. MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE... 921 MB.
If this sucker gets close to the gulf, i'm grabbin my surfboard and taking a few days off of school for this bad boy(or should I say girl). There is NO better time to surf the gulf than a couple of days before a hurricane hits. They bring in some awesome surf.
crap...I am flying back to Siesta Key FL tomorrow night for 5 days of golfing and condo hunting. I hope it stays away. But then again if that is all I have to worry about....I need to shut up as people lives will be threatened.
LOL, the other day I was watching the news, and on the screen was something about Hurricane BABEL?! I was like WTF?! Then I realized it wasn't Chuck, it was actually ISABEL. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]