Where the hell do these come from??
Look at how small and compact the eye is. That's the best rule of thumb to be able to tell how intense a hurricane is.
Smaller eye - very intense and violent hurricane. Not as large of a storm but significantly more violent. Very strong violent catastrophic winds throughout the entire storm not just the center.
Larger eye - not as intense but still powerful. Larger eyes usually cause the storm to "elongate" making the storm cover more mileage. Due to that the energy is distributed in a larger area hence a "weaker" hurricane with the strongest winds being at the very center. We saw this with Irma.
Our weather man just said winds over 217 K an hour.
Our local weatherman said 281.6 kph but that was an hour ago...
- Hurricane Maria made landfall on Puerto Rico around 6:15am Wednesday
- It's expected rage across the island for most of the day
- Maria is the first Category 4 hurricane to hit the island since 1932
- Most of the island is still without power after a brush with Irma earlier this month
- More than 4,400 people were in shelters on Puerto Rico late Tuesday night
- The National Hurricane Center says little change in strength is expected in the coming 48 hours
- The storm is next headed to the Dominican Republic, where it's expected to strike tonight
- The Turks & Caicos Islands and the southeastern Bahamas will see hurricane conditions Thursday evening
- Before hitting Puerto Rico, Maria battered St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands for about five hours overnight
- So far, Maria has been blamed for nine deaths - seven on Dominica and two on Guadeloupe
- The hurricane made it's first landfall on Dominica as a Category 5 storm on Monday
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4902546/Maria-makes-landfall-Puerto-Rico-Cat-4-hurricane.html#ixzz4tEdJZRah
- An estimated 70 per cent of homes on the island lost their roofs
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Published on Sep 20, 2017
Hurricane Maria, a Category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, is about to emerge off the northwest coast of Puerto Rico after becoming the island's strongest hurricane landfall since before the Great Depression, continuing to lash the island and the nearby Virgin Islands with destructive winds, flooding rain and storm surge.
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Published on Sep 20, 2017
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