stormtiger
(Weather Hobbyist)
Wed Jun 30 2010 01:29 PM
Re: Alex Becomes Hurricane in Bay of Campeche

Alex is a massive storm.

If you look on the NWAtlantic water vapor loop you see Alex is as big as the big ULL East of Florida. Alex and the ULL off florida along with another ULL in the mid Atlantic are all lined up "horizontally" in that view like 3 giant buzz saws.

Alex is impressive as it's as big or bigger than the big ULL in size.

Alex's pressure is very low for its wind speed. Let's hope the winds do not catch up to the pressure falls of last night and this morning.

Alex needs to get into Mexico fast. The quicker it does the less time the winds will have to pick up and hopefully the rains can subside faster. I'm afraid the flooding will be tremendous and we all know that often times flooding is the big killer especially in the higher elevations of Mexico.



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