Clark
(Meteorologist)
Sun Aug 29 2004 04:50 PM
Re: moving west now..

It's still a 115kt hurricane. Note that they went into the SW side of the storm first, the weakest of all four quadrants of the system. They'll find higher flight-level winds with subsequent vortex messages, and the NHC concurs (thus the 5pm 115kt intensity).

We've got Hermine now too, making it the 8th storm of the season. Advisory isn't out yet, but the 5pm Gaston discussion references it picking up Hermine in the 48hr time frame. (Edit: now the advisory is out, 1008mb/35kt. Calls for strengthening to a 45kt storm before becoming absorbed by Gaston at T+48hr.)

Tropical storm watches have been issued for some of the northern islands in advance of Frances as well.



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