NOW POTENTIAL CAT 5!! BREAKING NEWS

[itsrobert]

ON MSNBC.

EDIT: POTENTIAL TO BE CAT 5

[TwilightGardener]

1. WTF? Must be tapping into some very warm waters.

[itsrobert]

2. Sorry, I missed heard

I apologize.

[hootinholler]

4. It hasn't hit the really hot water yet. The Gulf is quite warm 85+ this year.

It hasn't entered the gulf yet.

-Hoot

[Breeze54]

7. That's what my local meteorologists said too.... it may be an F5++

by the time it hits land! :scared:

I hope Mayor Nadin evacuates BEFORE Sunday!

:wtf: is wrong with him? :grr:

[hootinholler]

12. Tornados are measured on the F (Fujita?) scale

Hurricanes are assigned a category.

All the models show it skirting SW of NO. Bad news, because the bigest surge is in the NE quadrant.

Um, I think it's Mayor Nagin.

-Hoot

[Liberal Dose]

13. Water in the Gulf is always warmer. We lived in Key Largo when Katrina went over us, then hit the

gulf and turned into a monster.

[rurallib]

3. 935 mb? Whoooa -

IIRC anything below 1000 is super serious. 935 is way below.

[MiniMe]

5. CNN projected map

:scared:

[lunatica]

6. It's a category 4

They think it could intensify to a category 5 in the Gulf. I'm watching the weather channel. Heavy rainfall in the Keys which are getting the outer legs of the hurricane. The eye is going to cross Cuba's western end.

Hurrican Hannah building too.

[malaise]

8. Hannah is not a hurricane

still a tropical storm.

[gi4obama]

9. This story says it is already a Cat. 5

http://www.wral.com/news/national_world/national/story/3460093/

[Robbien]

10. Only FEMA is calling it a cat 5, everyone else still has it at a 4

No one should be taking any note of what clueless FEMA is doing when there are plenty of knowledgeable sources available.

[Nikki Stone1]

11. FEMA has improved somewhat since they took the "Fashion God" out of there

Let's hope they do a better job this time. With the GOP convention happening, I can't believe they wouldn't.