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Old September 9th 04, 06:20 AM posted to uk.sci.weather
Tom Bennett Tom Bennett is offline
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Default Ivan - Now a Category 5


"Bjørn Sørheim" wrote
Seems to be a pretty nasty situation in Grenada as it was directly hit
by hurricane Ivan on Tuesday evening.
Ivan seems to have been on the border between 3 to 4 on the
Saffir-Simpson scale at the time.


WTNT34 KNHC 090543
TCPAT4
BULLETIN
HURRICANE IVAN INTERMEDIATE ADVISORY NUMBER 27A
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
2 AM AST THU SEP 09 2004

....EXTREMELY DANGEROUS IVAN STRENGTHENS INTO A CATEGORY 5
HURRICANE OVER THE SOUTH-CENTRAL CARIBBEAN SEA...

See: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh.../022031.shtml?

I knew I hadn't dreamt it when I posted a report of the possibility of
this, the other day

- Tom.