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UNISYS Water Vapor GOES East Satellite (click here for 12 hour loop - thank you)
It is approximately Punta Alegre at Parque Nacional Caguanes. The storm is a perfect circle, which it hasn't been.
September 7, 2016
By Mimi Whitefield
With hurricane warnings (click here) in effect for four central Cuban provinces with northern coastlines, Cubans completed last-minute preparations and evacuations Thursday in advance of Hurricane Irma.
Irma’s current path keeps the massive storm offshore and models don’t show it making landfall on the island. But the hurricane could still churn up storm surges of 5 to 10 feet and waves reaching as high as 13 to 20 feet, causing flooding in low-lying ares, said Cuba’s Institute of Meteorology.
Irma-induced swells were expected to begin in eastern Cuba around 7 p.m. Thursday and affect the north coast all the way to Havana in coming days....
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UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite of the north and west hemisphere (click here)
Katia has moved inland. Jose is adopting a path similar to Irma.
A mandatory evacuation was met with work and while he was there he may as well hurricane-proof his house. How did this happen?
By Ophelia Buckleton
A Kiwi living in Florida (click here) has described scenes of desperation as people rush to prepare for deadly Hurricane Irma.
Chad Bennett, originally from South Auckland, will face the worst of the weather alone after his wife and 1-year-old daughter evacuated Lighthouse Point, a coastal city near Fort Lauderdale, earlier this week.
Despite a mandatory evacuation of the area, Bennett had to stay behind for work and to hurricane-proof his house. He said it was too late to leave now.
"My main concern was that my wife and baby were safe. I had to stay for work and I was like 'get out and go now, don't wait for me'," he said....
