On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 07:23:05 GMT, Les Crossan
wrote:

Tropical cyclones aren't normally my style but this one seems fairly
remarkable for June - must be all the GW or earthquake activity in the
Marianas Trench. Irony aside:

The intellicast radar is showing the rain bands up a treat. Check
Florida. From various sources:

Dennis is now the strongest-ever July Hurricane in the Atlantic Basin
(current central Pressure being 27.76"/940mb-hPa). This is only the
4th-ever Major (cat 3+) Hurricane in the Atlantic Basin in July.
Around 40 or so people are going to ride out the storm in the (WW2-era)
USS Alabama warship, moored in Mobile Bay, Alabama.
Hurricane Warnings currently in effect from Steinhatchee River, Florida,
Westwards to Pearl River on the Louisiana/Mississippi border.
Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama have all been under States
of Emergency in preparation of landfall.

Aqua image of Dennis he

http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/r...184500.1km.jpg