Future Intensity Levels

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Future Intensity Levels

#1 Postby dougjp » Thu Sep 09, 2004 7:29 am

Maybe I'm reading the NHC 5 a.m. wrong, but I can't understand one thing.

They seem to show Ivan going directly over the 7,400 ft. high Blue Mountains of Jamaica, and traversing over a good portion of its 4,111 sq. miles of island size (looks like for about 80 miles in distance, meaning a number of hours over land).

After all that it emerges off the NE coast of the Island loosing only 17 MPH in wind speed? Does that make sense, or am I reading the coordinates wrong?
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#2 Postby hurricanedude » Thu Sep 09, 2004 7:36 am

Jamaica is a very small island....it will not weaken a storm of this strength as most of the circulation will be over water even while the eye is ashore for a bit
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