Its an actual recorded pressure, see my other post

"John Hall" wrote in message
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Richard Dixon writes:
I'm sure most will pick up on this as the day goes along but Hurricane
Wilma's central pressure has dropped like the proverbial stone in the
last few hours, I'm sure it must be near record-breaking intensification
rates.

21Z/19th - 970mb - Cat 1
00Z/20th - 954mb - Cat 2
03Z/20th - 945mb - Cat 2
05Z/20th - 901mb - Cat 4
06Z/20th - 901mb - Cat 4
07Z/20th - 892mb - Cat 5

Since the date appears to be wrong, can we believe the rest of it? Or is
this actually a forecast rather than what has already occurred?
--
John Hall

"The covers of this book are too far apart."
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

"Richard Dixon" wrote in message
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Apologies to all - I was a day ahead - these are values from the NHC
analyses issued today.

21Z/18th - 970mb - Cat 1
00Z/19th - 954mb - Cat 2
03Z/19th - 945mb - Cat 2
05Z/19th - 901mb - Cat 4
06Z/19th - 901mb - Cat 4
07Z/19th - 892mb - Cat 5
09Z/19th - 884mb - Cat 5

So - 86mb in 12 hours!

Richard

I think we have a new world recor low pressure on the cards here. The world
record is 868 mb btw.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051019/...NlYwMlJVRPUCUl

On 19 Oct 2005 10:14:18 GMT, Richard Dixon
wrote:

Apologies to all - I was a day ahead - these are values from the NHC
analyses issued today.

21Z/18th - 970mb - Cat 1
00Z/19th - 954mb - Cat 2
03Z/19th - 945mb - Cat 2
05Z/19th - 901mb - Cat 4
06Z/19th - 901mb - Cat 4
07Z/19th - 892mb - Cat 5
09Z/19th - 884mb - Cat 5

So - 86mb in 12 hours!

"Hurricane Wilma Intermediate Advisory Number 16a

Statement as of 8:00 am EDT on October 19, 2005

....Wilma maintaining category five status...record pressure
confirmed by aircraft crew..."

So there we have it. It's a record.

--
Dave

Dave Ludlow wrote in
:

So there we have it. It's a record.

It's interesting Dave, in terms of the real "danger" metric - the
windspeeds, Wilma is not a record. I was looking at the HURDAT database
this afternoon and noted the strongest sustained winds (mph) reported.
Although I'm not sure of the accuracy of these estimates given that the
reconnaissance planes are a relatively new method of getting the winds
from these systems. So as it stands, Wilma nudges into joint 5th.

Storm Name Year Month Day Wind Pressure (mb)
CAMILLE 1969 August 17 190 -
ALLEN 1980 August 7 190 899
DOG 1950 September 6 185 -
GILBERT 1988 September 14 185 888
MITCH 1998 October 26 180 905
JANET 1955 September 28 175 -
CARLA 1961 September 11 175 936
ANITA 1977 September 2 175 926
DAVID 1979 August 30 175 924
ANDREW 1992 August 23 175 922

Richard

In uk.sci.weather on Wed, 19 Oct 2005 at 10:14:18, Richard Dixon wrote :
Apologies to all - I was a day ahead - these are values from the NHC
analyses issued today.

21Z/18th - 970mb - Cat 1
00Z/19th - 954mb - Cat 2
03Z/19th - 945mb - Cat 2
05Z/19th - 901mb - Cat 4
06Z/19th - 901mb - Cat 4
07Z/19th - 892mb - Cat 5
09Z/19th - 884mb - Cat 5

So - 86mb in 12 hours!

Are we sure its a hurricane, not a Black Hole?
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham

The U.S. has time to deflect or suppress Hurricane Wilma. The question
is will they do it and if not, why not?

http://foxfiretechnology.com/

On 22 Oct 2005 17:52:55 -0700, Hurricane Guy wrote:

The U.S. has time to deflect or suppress Hurricane Wilma. The
question is will they do it and if not, why not?

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk....rm/thread/ccc0
6668ac5afaba/a37af0f7a0a02829?tvc=1&q=nuclear+group:uk.sci.weat her&hl=
en#a37af0f7a0a02829

http://makeashorterlink.com/?L5B23280C

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk....hread/thread/8
811b21fa0b3308d/5b16995c8920c1d0?lnk=st&q=nuclear+group:uk.sci.wea ther
&rnum=1&hl=en#5b16995c8920c1d0

http://makeashorterlink.com/?D1C22580C

Now be a nice chap and FOAD.

--
Cheers
Dave. pam is missing e-mail