On Nov 7, 9:58*pm, Alastair wrote:
On Nov 7, 9:35*pm, "Keith (Southend)"
wrote:



Keith (Southend) wrote:
Now a Category 2 Hurricane crossing the Cayman Islands and heading for
Cuba.

################################################## ##############################
# *SYNOPS from 78384, Owen Roberts Airportgrand Cayman (Cayman Islands)
| 19-17N | 081-21W | 3 m
################################################## ##############################
200811071800 AAXX 07184 78384 11456 80831 10245 20238 40057 60621 76162
8422/ 333 0/249 10249 20234 59052 71121 84812 88458
* * * * * * * * * * 90983=

112.1mm of rain in the past 24 hours.

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

Here's a graphic

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/grap...814.shtml?5day

Wot's "M"?

Weatherlawyer wrote:
On Nov 7, 9:58 pm, Alastair wrote:
On Nov 7, 9:35 pm, "Keith (Southend)"
wrote:



Keith (Southend) wrote:
Now a Category 2 Hurricane crossing the Cayman Islands and heading for
Cuba.
################################################## ##############################
# SYNOPS from 78384, Owen Roberts Airportgrand Cayman (Cayman Islands)
| 19-17N | 081-21W | 3 m
################################################## ##############################
200811071800 AAXX 07184 78384 11456 80831 10245 20238 40057 60621 76162
8422/ 333 0/249 10249 20234 59052 71121 84812 88458
90983=
112.1mm of rain in the past 24 hours.
--
Keith (Southend)http://www.southendweather.net
e-mail: kreh at southendweather dot net
Here's a graphic

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/grap...814.shtml?5day

Wot's "M"?


M = Sustained wind 110 mph

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

"Alastair" schreef in bericht
...

On Nov 7, 9:35 pm, "Keith (Southend)"
wrote:

Now a Category 2 Hurricane crossing the Cayman Islands and heading for
Cuba.

# SYNOPS from 78384, Owen Roberts Airportgrand Cayman (Cayman Islands)
| 19-17N | 081-21W | 3 m

200811071800 AAXX 07184 78384 11456 80831 10245 20238 40057 60621 76162
8422/ 333 0/249 10249 20234 59052 71121 84812 88458
90983=

112.1mm of rain in the past 24 hours.

Here's a graphic
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/grap...814.shtml?5day

-------------------------

.... and the NWS METARs http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/MWCR.html

Heavy rain and severe gale at 23.00 UTC on Friday.

Colin Youngs
Brussels

On Nov 7, 11:53*pm, "Keith (Southend)"

Wot's "M"?

M = Sustained wind 110 mph

That's "Sw" you plank.

Weatherlawyer wrote:
On Nov 7, 11:53 pm, "Keith (Southend)"
Wot's "M"?
M = Sustained wind 110 mph

That's "Sw" you plank.

Now a Cat 3 Hurricane :-0

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

Keith (Southend) wrote:


Now a Cat 3 Hurricane :-0


And now Cat 4.

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Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman not newsboy

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 was talking with a farmer in the Vinales valleys last month and asked
him how bad Ike had been and how it compared with previous hurricanes.
Apparently, in 1944 there was a cat 5 but because it travelled the
island at about 50km/hr the damage done was far less than Ike which,
although a cat 4, was travelling at 20-25km/hr.

The scenario with Paloma doesn't look good for Cuba as the current
surface speed is only 13km/hr.

To give the farmer his due, he still managed to see it all with good
humour, commenting that the 350 chickens he had lost to Ike are probably
in the USA now!

--
Chris

Chris wrote:
I was talking with a farmer in the Vinales valleys last month and asked
him how bad Ike had been and how it compared with previous hurricanes.
Apparently, in 1944 there was a cat 5 but because it travelled the
island at about 50km/hr the damage done was far less than Ike which,
although a cat 4, was travelling at 20-25km/hr.

The scenario with Paloma doesn't look good for Cuba as the current
surface speed is only 13km/hr.

To give the farmer his due, he still managed to see it all with good
humour, commenting that the 350 chickens he had lost to Ike are probably
in the USA now!


I've just added a few more locations to my Americas page in the
Worldwide Reports, this has included another 7 locations from Cuba I
have found. The one of interest will be:
78351 - Santa Cruz Del Sur, Camaguey(2m)#
as this is on a collision course with Paloma, but I expect it to go off
air unfortunately :-( I also made some small adjustments to pick up
some 24 hour rainfall totals for other Cuban locations that are either a
change or I hadn't noticed before.

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

Keith (Southend) wrote:

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


"PALOMA IS NOW THE SECOND STRONGEST ATLANTIC HURRICANE EVER NOTED IN
NOVEMBER BEHIND LENNY OF 1999."

Taken from http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh...l/082045.shtml

--
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman not newsboy