Earthside Comments: Hope, hope, hope that this hurricane doesn't get near Florida (or any place where people might be injured). It sure seems that either way you want to look at it, we've got a problem ... either human-effected global warming is taking its toll on us ... or god is really mad at America for the illegitimate Bush regime and its immoral war. So, we probably ought to do something, right?
Link: Hurricane Wilma - A Monster | Dr. Jeff Masters/Weather Underground
There has never been a hurricane like Wilma before. With an unbelievable round of intensification that saw the pressure drop 87 mb in just 12 hours, Wilma smashed the all-time record for lowest pressure in an Atlantic hurricane this morning. The 4 am hurricane hunter report put the pressure at 882 mb, easily besting the previous record of 888 mb set in Hurricane Gilbert of 1988. And since no hurricane hunter airplane has been in the eye since then, Wilma may be even stronger now. The eye diameter of Wilma during this round of intense shrunk as low as 2 nautical miles, which may be the smallest eye diameter ever measured in a tropical cyclone.
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