If you know anyone from Jamaica, wish them luck. Looks like Dean may be a category 5 (155 mph winds) when it rolls over the island. A friend of mine from my last job has family there so hopefully they’re safe.
Look for this to make a big mess for gas prices if it shifts at all to the north of it’s present track. As it is they’ll have to evac many of the drilling platforms which will cause a drop in supply.
We’ll see. Crossing the Yucatan isn’t a very large chunk of land, especially for a cat 5. Then it’s got the very warm gulf waters to feed off on it’s way to TexMexico.
Possible, yes. But I really expect the yucatan to take the brunt of the storm. The second you cut a Hurricane off from the warm ocean by putting it over land, it drops it’s power FAST. And there is little indication of a weather pattern that would cause it to slow its westward speed and progress. At 17MPH, it’s a fairly quick-moving hurricane.
If it just grazes the peninsuala, then Brownsville/Corpus Christi should start shitting themselves.