Just had a squall here in Ft Lauderdale

[DAVE440]

Little pieces of outer band been going thru all day.
Just had another quickie but heavy shower with gusts to 38 here in Sunrise.

Hollywood reporting 46 and Ft Laud Airport 43.

Seeing bright blue purple and orangish/pink flashes in
the sky every so often. Not sure if its wires touching
each other or transformers. Prolly wires.


Got PC tv on too... 11pm just came out

At 11 PM EDT...0300z...the center of Hurricane Dennis was located
near latitude 23.0 north...longitude 82.1 west or about 20
miles... 30 km...east of Havana Cuba and about 110 miles... 180
km...south of Key West Florida.

Dennis is moving toward the northwest near 14 mph...22 km/hr... and
this general motion is expected to continue for the next 24 hours.
This motion should bring the center of Dennis near Havana and into
the striats of Florida during the next few hours...then near the
Dry Tortugas on Saturday morning.

Maximum sustained winds have decreased to near 110 mph...175
km/hr...with higher gusts. Dennis is a category two hurricane on
the Saffir-Simpson scale. However...it is expected to re-intensify
into a major hurricane upon reaching The Straits of Florida.

Hurricane force winds extend outward up to 65 miles...100 km...
from the center...and tropical storm force winds extend outward up
to 175 miles...280 km. Key West Florida recently reported sustained
winds of 44 mph with a gust to 54 mph. Tropical-storm force wind
gusts are also occurring in squalls as far north as the Miami area

[Foladar]

Wow .. 175 miles outward now?
Thought it was only expected to be 150, bit larger than expected then

[DAVE440]

Yup. If ur lookin for me.... X marks the spot...



http://radblast.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/radar/WUNIDS?station=AMX&brand=wui&num=6&delay=50&type=N0R&frame=0&scale=1&noclutter=1&lat=26.149799&lon=-80.272377&label=Sunrise,+FL