Margie
(Senior Storm Chaser)
Thu Oct 20 2005 10:45 PM
Re: Wilma Moving Northwest

Just got home...Wilma not looking like she's going to make it into cat 5 territory again. Looks like dry air may be having an effect on the north and west sides of the storm, which I didn't expect this afternoon. But looking at the wv loop, that is the way it appears to me. Also it looks like she ran out of real estate before she got a chance to completely recover from the ERC. The eye hasn't completely cleared out yet. But she still has good overall organization, the eye is round, she still has an extremely low pressure, and is still a very powerful hurricane.

Looking at the steering layer right now it certainly does appear she is going to bulls-eye Cozumel.

Buoy 42056 is getting hurricane-force gusts now and waves may have peaked at 33ft. Pressure is still up around 990.



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