Farewell, Felix

I just sent in my final Felix update to PJM. I'm excerpting it below in non-blockquoted fashion, to make room for the images...

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Hurricane Felix roared ashore in Nicaragua this morning, an unprecedented second Category Five hurricane in two weeks to hit Central America. Here is another pair of images of Felix making landfall at 7:45 AM EDT -- at left, the visible satellite view as the sun rose; at right, the enhanced infrared shot:

... Incomplete and conflicting information abounds -- call it "the fog of Felix" -- but some reports indicate that at least two people died in the city [of Puerto Cabezas]. ... But...the truly "horrible" winds -- 160 mph sustained, with higher gusts (possibly much higher, since the storm was strengthening as it came ashore) -- and the worst of the 18-foot storm surge were confined to the sparsely populated marshland regions along the Mosquito Coast north of the city. ...

Meanwhile, as if one hurricane smacking Latin America wasn't enough, a second made landfall just 9 hours later, over on the Pacific side. Hurricane Henriette hit the southern tip of Baja California, near San Jose Del Cabo, at around 5:00 PM EDT. ...

Now, all eyes turn to the waters off the Southeastern U.S., where Tropical Depression Seven -- and perhaps Tropical Storm Gabrielle -- could soon form. The computer models disagree about whether "Invest 99L" will develop, and if so, where it will go. One of the more intriguing model forecasts, from the HRWF, brings "Gabrielle" into Long island and New England as a weak hurricane this Saturday:

Other models, as Dr. Masters points out, take the storm to North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida.

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Read the whole thing, with additional pretty graphics, at Pajamas Media.

Comments

[Joe Loy]

"One of the more intriguing model forecasts, from the HRWF, brings 'Gabrielle' into Long island and New England as a weak hurricane this Saturday."

Weak, schmeak. Intriguing, my eye. Fie. ;}