Hurricane Dean update
Update via NOAA at 8pm AST; The Windward Islands of Martinique, Dominica, Guadeloupe, and St. Lucia are now feeling the effects of Hurricane Dean. Here is the updated storm path.
Dean is now a huge, Category 2 hurricane with sustained wind speeds upward of 100 MPH. As of Midnight tonight, Dean is only about 150 miles east of Martinique and 60 miles north of Barbados. Dean is currently traveling at 25 miles per hour towards the west and slightly northwest.
By 4am Eastern, Thursday morning, Dean will be just south of Martinique and north of St. Lucia.
According to the updated path, hurricane Dean should travel across the empty middle of the Caribbean and make second landfall on the southern end of Jamaica approxmately noon on Sunday before heading for the Yucatan and eventually heading towards southern Texas or northern Mexico on Tuesday or Wednesday. It will likely be a category 1 hurricane on Saturday.
NOAA website: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov
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