Random Chaos
(Weather Analyst)
Fri Oct 21 2005 07:56 AM
Re: Wilma Approaching the Yucatan Peninsula
That kind of disipation usually takes a couple hundred miles. 8 miles inland is close enough that with a storm surge the size of Katrina's, you'd be flooded. 8 miles inland means the center of the eye is still offshore when the eyewall hits you.