Hurricane Dean is now strengthened to a category 5 and is headed for the Yucatan Peninsula about 100 miles south of Cancun. The best link on this posting is the fourth one on weather_com.
Hurricane Dean is closing in on Jamaica and at last look (just at the start of Sunday 8/19/2007) the radar and satelite images , Dean’s eye appears to be headed just south of the island. The storm bands are huge though and the storm bands will more than cover all of Jamaica as it passes on Sunday.
It took a while, but I found a Jamaica radar loop.
(This loop however is showing Feb 8, 2007??? and no outer bands so something is haywire with their system it seems. So use the second link for satelite.)
http://www.metservice.gov.jm/radarpage.asp
Satelite animation shows the path better. This seems to be the only good animated view of the storm.
http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/get-goes?satellite=GOES-E%20HURRICANE&lat=20&lon=-60&zoom=4&width=1200&height=400&type=Animation&palette=spect.pal
Here is a link from a Wunderground weather station in Kingston (south east corner of Jamaica). There is a chart showing the barometric pressure dropping as the eye approaches and a chart of wind speed. Hopefully this is more accurate than that radar loop. Wunderground has a pretty cool weather site and the little individual weather stations scattered about is a cool idea.
(Barometric pressure was dropping on that chart, now some crazy nonsense numbers. Still shows temp and what I would think are pretty low wind speeds. I assume all this equipment still has its power?..Stay tuned)
http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/MKJP/2007/8/19/DailyHistory.html
This link has satelite animated too and seems to be less busy
http://www.weather.com/maps/news/atlstorm4/atl4satellite_large_animated.html
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