HURRICANE DEAN Update 05:30 Hrs USA CDT, August 19, 2007
Hurricane DEAN continues to move west northwest and is approximately 200 miles east southeast of the Jamaican coast. DEAN is still a high Category 4 storm and is still moving on it's track at 17 miles per hour. However, as is normal with this size storm, some fluctuations in wind speed take place. The maximum sustained surface level winds are down 5 miles per hour to around 145 mph, but the winds at 10,000 feet are still gusting to over 185 mph.
Jamaica and the Cayman Islands will be affected severely by this dangerous killer Hurricane over the next 8 to 36 hours. Warnings have been issued and evacuations are taking place at this hour.
We are also noting this morning that the low pressure area aloft that was hovering near south central Florida has weakend and AT THIS TIME, will not be affecting the track of DEAN to any significant extent. That
could change early next week, but at THIS TIME, the forecast track of Dean will place it in northeastern Mexico by late this coming week.
For persons along the US Gulf of Mexico coastline, do not let your guard down. This storm still has the potential to be influenced by other weather systems and it's track COULD possibly move further north as time goes on.
Our next scheduled update will be on Monday morning, August 20, 2007, at approximately 05:30 hrs USA CDT. Until then, all US Coastal residents should monitor this dangerous storm vigilently.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
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