Scroll down for earlier posts for more information. This brief post mainly to update location/movement, etc. Next full advisory fom the NHC will be at 10 am Alabama time:
7 AM LOCATION/MOVEMENT
Latitude 17.8N, longitude 81.5W. Translation: 440 miles east of Belize City. Moving west at 21 mph.
WINDS/PRESSURE
Highest sustained 150 mph, much higher gusts. Dean is amost a Category 5 and will likely reach that before landfall on the Yucatan. Pressure 926 millibars or 27.34 inches.
RAIN
Maximum of up to 20 inches Jamaica and Yusatan Penninsula. If Dean stays on projected path look for enormous flooding in the mountains of Central Mexico later in the week.
