It is very hard for me to call something as terrible as a category four hurricane “beautiful,” but I think that you could call this visible satellite photograph of extremely intense Hurricane Dean in the Caribbean this afternoon stunning.
THE LATEST ON DEAN
2 p.m. CDT
LOCATION…15.9 N…69.4 W or 505 ESE of KINGSTON, JAMAICA
MOVEMENT…WNW-17
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…150 MPH
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…930 MB/27.46 INCHES
A COUPLE OF NOTES…
…NOAA Gulfstream IV high altitude reconnaissance flights will begin Sunday evening. This means the model output on Monday morning should be especially good.
…the morning suite of track models is tightly clustered on a path that clips the northeastern corner of the Yucatan and then moves inland just south of Brownsville, Texas. The GFDL, which has been an outlier to the north, still is on the northern edge of the envelope and carries the center to just north of Brownsville.
