Hurricane Dean, an extremely powerful Category 5 hurricane, has come ashore in the Yucatan Peninsula, near Chetumal, a city of about 140,000. Dean hit land at peak intensity, with central pressure of 906 millibars, making it the strongest storm ever to make landfall in the Atlantic. Indeed, as Chris Mooney notes:
It was also the first Category 5 Atlantic hurricane seen in the since the record-setting Hurricane Wilma of October 2005. In fact, Dean set some records of its own. Its pressure was the ninth lowest ever measured in the Atlantic, and the third lowest at landfall. Indeed, there hasn’t been a full Category 5 landfall in our part of the world since 1992’s Hurricane Andrew. Dean was in all respects a terrifying storm, and we can only hope that the damage will somehow be less than expected as it tears across the peninsula and then, after crossing the Bay of Campeche, moves on to a presumed second Mexican landfall.Dean is one of the ten most intense Atlantic storms in recorded history. Six of the ten most intense storms recorded have been in the past ten years. Five -- 2004's Ivan, 2005's Katrina, Rita, and Wilma, and now Dean -- have come in the past four years.
Of course, global warming cannot be a factor in this, because we all know hockey stick little ice age liberals taking our hummers and conoco says so. But if I lived in a coastal city, I'd be a bit concerned about this turn of events nonetheless.
Hopefully the residents of Chetumal ride out the storm okay, and if there's a silver lining in this, it's that Dean is moving westward at a fast pace, meaning that the Yucatan won't see the kind of incessant pounding that Wilma gave it in 2005. But Dean is not done by a long shot; it should reenter the Gulf of Mexico later today, and reintensify back into a major storm before striking Mexico yet again tomorrow.
Dean Comes Ashore
Hurricane Dean, an extremely powerful Category 5 hurricane, has come ashore in the Yucatan Peninsula, near Chetumal, a city of about 140,000. Dean hit land at peak intensity, with central pressure of 906 millibars, making it the strongest storm ever to make landfall in the Atlantic. Indeed, as Chris Mooney notes:
Of course, global warming cannot be a factor in this, because we all know hockey stick little ice age liberals taking our hummers and conoco says so. But if I lived in a coastal city, I'd be a bit concerned about this turn of events nonetheless.
Hopefully the residents of Chetumal ride out the storm okay, and if there's a silver lining in this, it's that Dean is moving westward at a fast pace, meaning that the Yucatan won't see the kind of incessant pounding that Wilma gave it in 2005. But Dean is not done by a long shot; it should reenter the Gulf of Mexico later today, and reintensify back into a major storm before striking Mexico yet again tomorrow.
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It was also the first Category 5 Atlantic hurricane seen in the since the record-setting Hurricane Wilma of October 2005. In fact, Dean set some records of its own. Its pressure was the ninth lowest ever measured in the Atlantic, and the third lowest at landfall. Indeed, there hasn’t been a full Category 5 landfall in our part of the world since 1992’s Hurricane Andrew. Dean was in all respects a terrifying storm, and we can only hope that the damage will somehow be less than expected as it tears across the peninsula and then, after crossing the Bay of Campeche, moves on to a presumed second Mexican landfall.Dean is one of the ten most intense Atlantic storms in recorded history. Six of the ten most intense storms recorded have been in the past ten years. Five -- 2004's Ivan, 2005's Katrina, Rita, and Wilma, and now Dean -- have come in the past four years.
Of course, global warming cannot be a factor in this, because we all know hockey stick little ice age liberals taking our hummers and conoco says so. But if I lived in a coastal city, I'd be a bit concerned about this turn of events nonetheless.
Hopefully the residents of Chetumal ride out the storm okay, and if there's a silver lining in this, it's that Dean is moving westward at a fast pace, meaning that the Yucatan won't see the kind of incessant pounding that Wilma gave it in 2005. But Dean is not done by a long shot; it should reenter the Gulf of Mexico later today, and reintensify back into a major storm before striking Mexico yet again tomorrow.
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