danielwAdministrator
(Moderator)
Tue Aug 21 2007 03:46 AM
Dean

Just checking in and I must agree. Dean appears to be intensifying even more.

Classic extreme Hurricane on all of the satellite shots.

This storm even has 'hot towers' of cloud tops higher than the Eye over the Northern Yucatan Peninsula at 0245Z. The green areas are higher than the Eye!
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/flt/t1/img/2007233_0245ft.jpg

Lightning in the western and northern feeder bands. Some of the heaviest lightning I've seen since Katrina-2005.
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/flt/t1/img/2007233_0245rgb.jpg

Here's a really good link to local storm reports frfom the Caribbean Area.
http://www.stormcarib.com/


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