Wilma
Un article du Austin American Statesman sur le cyclone Wilma
Tropical Storm Wilma gaining strength
21st named storm might become hurricane today.
KNIGHT RIDDER NEWS SERVICE
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
MIAMI -- Tropical Storm Wilma -- that's right, the first "W" storm in history -- strengthened Monday in the Caribbean and was expected to become a hurricane today.
The 21st named storm of 2005 tied the record for the most storms in an Atlantic hurricane season, exhausted the official list of names and could pose a threat to Florida by this weekend.
A hurricane watch already covered the Cayman Islands. A tropical storm warning was posted for western Honduras.
"I don't think anybody ever thought we would be at this point," Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center in West Miami-Dade County, said of the extraordinarily busy season.
Long-range predictions, subject to widely accepted margins of error, carried Wilma into the Gulf of Mexico as a major Category 3 hurricane by Friday.
Once there, it may weaken slightly but it will strike the mainland somewhere, and forecasters advised Floridians to remain particularly alert.
"The advice for folks in Florida is not to put away all those hurricane supplies yet," Mayfield said.
Still pulling itself together and trapped between two high-pressure systems that it cannot go through, Wilma meandered near Jamaica on Monday and was expected to drift slowly through the northwestern Caribbean for several days as it feeds on a particularly warm pool of water.
Ce sont des petits comiques au Statesman : "That's right, the first 'W' storm in history". C'est étonnant, il y a pourtant un autre ouragan 'W' qui est arrivé aux USA en 2000...
Tropical Storm Wilma gaining strength
21st named storm might become hurricane today.
KNIGHT RIDDER NEWS SERVICE
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
MIAMI -- Tropical Storm Wilma -- that's right, the first "W" storm in history -- strengthened Monday in the Caribbean and was expected to become a hurricane today.
The 21st named storm of 2005 tied the record for the most storms in an Atlantic hurricane season, exhausted the official list of names and could pose a threat to Florida by this weekend.
A hurricane watch already covered the Cayman Islands. A tropical storm warning was posted for western Honduras.
"I don't think anybody ever thought we would be at this point," Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center in West Miami-Dade County, said of the extraordinarily busy season.
Long-range predictions, subject to widely accepted margins of error, carried Wilma into the Gulf of Mexico as a major Category 3 hurricane by Friday.
Once there, it may weaken slightly but it will strike the mainland somewhere, and forecasters advised Floridians to remain particularly alert.
"The advice for folks in Florida is not to put away all those hurricane supplies yet," Mayfield said.
Still pulling itself together and trapped between two high-pressure systems that it cannot go through, Wilma meandered near Jamaica on Monday and was expected to drift slowly through the northwestern Caribbean for several days as it feeds on a particularly warm pool of water.
Ce sont des petits comiques au Statesman : "That's right, the first 'W' storm in history". C'est étonnant, il y a pourtant un autre ouragan 'W' qui est arrivé aux USA en 2000...