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Hurricane Wilma Strengthens
10/19/05
Hurricane Wilma Strengthens
After going to bed last night to the ‘pitta patta’ of rain drops, I’m awaken this morning by heavy rumbling. “A wah dat” I cry out sitting up in bed. ‘Thunder” was the calm answer from my husband who obviously had been awake“. “But thunder no roll like that” I said. “You tell Wilma that” he said.
Hurricane Wilma has strengthened overnight from a category 1 to a category 5. Now packing winds of 175 mph the pressure has so far dropped to 884 millibars.
Thanks to ‘good old’ Weather Channel I was able to get this information at 4:30am in the morning. They are calling Hurricane Wilma the strongest hurricane this season with the lowest pressure ever recorded. When I look at the radar picture Jamaica still has quite a bit of those outer bands covering us in red.
Now I can’t sleep. I shudder to think what the continued heavy rains will do to our little island. ‘Pre’ Wilma has already saturated the earth and ‘Post’ Wilma is moving away very slowly. I will keep you posted later.
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