(Weather Analyst)

Wed Aug 24 2011 07:24 AM

Re: Irene Turning More Northwest Over the Bahamas

Dropsonde in the eye found 957mb surface pressure. That's 5mb strengthening over the NHC estimate in their 5am update, and would be lower end of category 3 generally.

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