"Keith (Southend)" wrote in message
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Graham P Davis wrote:
Keith (Southend) wrote:

Now a Cat 3 Hurricane :-0


And now Cat 4.


This is not good for Cuba as this will hit a different part of the Island
than the other two, devastating yet another massive area. How unusual is
it to get a Cat 4 hurricane in November?

http://www.cira.colostate.edu/cira/R.../tropical.html

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Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net
e-mail: kreh at southendweather dot net

I think Paloma is the 6th Cat 4 hurricane in November to
plague the North Atlantic Basin since 1851 when records
began. The strongest of those was Lenny in 1999, carrying
max sustained winds of 135kt and caused significant damage
to the usually sheltered west and southwest facing harbours
of the northern Leeward Islands on the 19th November
because it traversed the Caribbean Sea in an unusual
west to east direction.

Nigel