Clark
(Meteorologist)
Tue Aug 21 2007 06:03 PM
Re: Dean Makes Landfall in Mexico as a Category 5 Hurricane

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Thank you, Clark!
But it says, that´s avaraged over the lowest 150 m and so it´isn´t at 150 m. So I would say you have to reduce around the half of he 20-25%, i.e. roughly 12%. That would give something like 156 kt.
Ok, whatever it had been, it had been horribly high!




Yeah, it was averaged in the lowest 150 meters, though I would still tend to think that there were a fair number of data points closer to 150 m skewing things than not. The points made below your post and above this one hit it on the head, however.

As for the storm Thunderbird is getting at -- I believe it's Isabel from 2003.