Hurricane Season 2007 - Dean
As I write this the first major storm of 2007 is smashing into Mexico. Dean is a Cat 5 monster. He smashed into the Yucatan Peninsula and has made it back into the Gulf as Category 1. He's expected to climb back up to 2 as he rakes Mexico's oil production facilities.
Mexico's oil production facilities are taking a direct hit. I don't think Dean could have chosen a better path if he were deliberately trying to hit Mexico's oil production. As I understand it most of this infrastructure is protected by the Yucatan Peninsula which I hope means this has not been a catastrophic world event.
While I have not seen many pictures from Jamaica I can tell you what has just happened. A hurricane has a stronger side and a weaker side. The strong side is on the leading edge with forward moving wind. The strong side of Katrina hit Biloxi and this is where the pictures of paved neighborhoods came from. So as he approached Jamaica Dean dropped a bit south so the eye wall would not hit Jamaica. You'd think this is good, save Jamaica from a direct hit. That would be wrong. Dean's strongest punch possible was thrown at Jamaica and Dean saved his internal pressure to grow even stronger.
This is a great way to evaluate the current hurricane risk. The dark red areas are capable of supporting a storm. By the looks of this map you would think that a hurricane caught up in an errand jet stream could climb up and hit Europe. Remnants of hurricanes have climbed up the eastern side of North America to hit Canadian provinces it the last couple years.
Storm2k is doing a great job of providing hurricane tracking information.
Mexico's oil production facilities are taking a direct hit. I don't think Dean could have chosen a better path if he were deliberately trying to hit Mexico's oil production. As I understand it most of this infrastructure is protected by the Yucatan Peninsula which I hope means this has not been a catastrophic world event.
While I have not seen many pictures from Jamaica I can tell you what has just happened. A hurricane has a stronger side and a weaker side. The strong side is on the leading edge with forward moving wind. The strong side of Katrina hit Biloxi and this is where the pictures of paved neighborhoods came from. So as he approached Jamaica Dean dropped a bit south so the eye wall would not hit Jamaica. You'd think this is good, save Jamaica from a direct hit. That would be wrong. Dean's strongest punch possible was thrown at Jamaica and Dean saved his internal pressure to grow even stronger.
This is a great way to evaluate the current hurricane risk. The dark red areas are capable of supporting a storm. By the looks of this map you would think that a hurricane caught up in an errand jet stream could climb up and hit Europe. Remnants of hurricanes have climbed up the eastern side of North America to hit Canadian provinces it the last couple years.
Storm2k is doing a great job of providing hurricane tracking information.
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