Brrr

I was saying that a few posts back.. we (as in media) seem to ignore the weather/catastrophic events more or less depending on where they are in the world - to some degree anywhere not in the main part of Europe or North America gets largely ignored - imagine if Wilma had landed anywhere in the U.S., we'd have every reporter and camera pointing in that direction!.

Thanks for that KW - any chance of it getting some more energy from the GOM - is it a safe bet that the waters are too cool for it to strengthen? Here's the latest sat

What cat are we expecting for Florida now KW?

Watch out for some of their more 'right' sided reporters - Hannity and Colmes and that other fellow O'Reilly (I think they are sending out subliminal messages as well )

Yes you can see it on the radar Radar There's been nearly no reporting of it here - isn't it dreadful - unless it lands in the 'right' place, we ignore it.

Yes - it'll soon be engulfed as well....

Intellicast Loop Atlantic Shows a full picture of the Atlantic - quite good loop. I have seen a number of sites now say that Wilma will land as a cat 2 or 1 even (Florida that is!)... Lovely loop Mondy - the last view is particularly nice...

Seems to work for me - Cancun Radar I was watching that Invest 99L - looks interesting....

Looking at multimap and comparing I'd say that's less than 80km from the mainland - going to be an interesting few hours to see what way she blows once there. :blink: .....

It's pretty close now......going to go over Cozumel and then the tip I think

Thanks SnowBear :blink: Actually you can really see the all the movement to the East on the animated... http://weather.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/goeseastconusir.html Select animation (sorry put the wrong link in - but is correct now)

Yes, but even if it does 'make landfall' will it make any real difference with such a slight impact? That's what I was just wondering (nobody's answered though!)

A question.. if the eye does cross the tippy edge of Mexico there.... will it really make that much difference to the strength of Wilma? What I want to know is if there is only minimal contact with land (rather like crossing over a 'little' Island) will it really affect a hurricane that much? :blink:

Another interesting view - updated every 10 mins I've been told.... (click on the point you want a close up on) IR Image Cancun GW the models seem a little confused at times ha!

The radar looks pretty scary if you were in Cancun at the moment Cancun Radar

GW/KW. the last frame on the visible is now showing a 'jog' to the East again - keeping us all guessing again...(thought the fact the eye doesn't actually sit on top of land I'm sure doesn't make an awful lot of difference at the proximity it's at to the people on the ground).

I agree - there's def a Northerly jog now.. and if you look at the forecast points on the visible they are to the East of where the eye appears to be heading! Bad news indeed for Florida...

Hi Guys, Some nice links in this report - follow the link to the Nasa site has some really good images of Wilma (I don't know if someone else has posted those - if they have my apologies). http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-5905324.html (Edit: Some nice stuff, radar etc. on stormtrack too... stormtrack ) And again - looking at the latest visible loop at NHC Wilma looks as if her eye might just miss land..... any thoughts?

sort of looks interesting, so I thought I'd post it.

I have not posted for a long while on this forum.. but I have friends in Galveston (evacuated) and friends in Houston - (one of them was at the borders of Louisiana as Texas home guard helping out - he tells me he'll be moved now cope with Rita). Anyway - here is a link to NBC storm surge prediction from the Army apparently - very scary for a lot of people in Galveston - the lovely old homes that survived the 1900's storm - don't know if they can survive such a storm surge. http://mfile.akamai.com/12944/wmv/vod.ibsy...998700.200k.asx Sorry - Forgot to say You'll need windows media/real audio to watch this video - or visit this site http://www.click2houston.com/index.html?refresh=1200 and click on storm surge

Crisp blue morning.. some sea mist earlier, but burnt off now... wind 12.7 mph from west temperature was 8 °C pressure 1016 hPa

Very Windy.. bright sunshine, some small amount of clouds at the moment. From Dublin Airport... wind 34.5mph gusts up to 48.3 mph from west/southwest temperature was 12 °C pressure 996

Chilly, dark grey clouds.. about to bucket down I think.... So I'll have a nice cup of coffee and read a book wind 13.8 mph south/southeast temperature was 12 °C pressure was 1011 hPa humidity was 81.9%.

Grey, miserable, mild Hang on.. wasn't that yesterday?.. yep.. and today !.

Well spotted there Andy.. I of course posted in the previous week :roll: So here's my report again. Grey, miserable, mild