Hurricane Fay Lands in Florida
Fay has already hit Florida 2 times and it’s not totally impossible for a 3rd time. It first came across the Flordia Keys and then Fay hit the penisula around the Naples area. Fay was packing 60 mph substained winds when she first hit the Florida shoreline and has actually gone up 5 mph to 65 as she is now over land in Southern Florida. The pressure inside the hurricane dropped right before landfall and this allow more winds to come rushing in and once it caught up with the eye of the hurricane, the winds actually went up. So it is unusual to see winds increase over land, but that is exactly what Fay did in South Florida today. It was around 5AM when the hurricane made it’s 2nd contact with the Sunshine State.
Now Fay might not be through with Florida and a lot of interesting things are setting up. The hurricane is moving really slow right now and it’s causing major flooding for the people in Florida. The hurricane could actually go back out to water on the eastern side of Florida and then return back to the east side of Florida. The fronts are setting up that could allow Fay to ram back over the coastal areas of places like Daytona Beach, Flaggler Beach or up around the Jacksonville, Florida area. The storm is officially a tropical storm and needs wind speeds of 74 to be a hurricane, but when a tropical storm is this close to those marks, I just go ahead and chalk it up to hurricane status. So this isn’t a tropical storm in my book and Fay is a hurricane as far as I am concern. I’m sure they are many people that would agree with that in the southern portion of Florida right now. So be sure to stay tuned and keep up with your local weather, because Fay is not finish with the U.S. yet and has only begun her soaking rains and high speed winds on the state of Florida.
