Watch out for Wilma – the Atlantic’s most powerful recorded hurricane ever. Here is a high-resolution satellite image of Hurricane Wilma over the Caribbean Sea. The image was taken from Satellite Terra on October 19, 2005.
From ABCNews.com:
“Gathering strength at a fierce pace, Hurricane Wilma swirled into the most intense Atlantic storm ever recorded Wednesday, a Category 5 monster packing 175 mph wind that forecasts warned was ‘extremely dangerous.’
“Wilma was dumping rain on Central America and Mexico, and forecasters warned of a ‘significant threat’ to Florida by the weekend. ‘All interests in the Florida Keys and the Florida peninsula should closely monitor the progress of extremely dangerous Hurricane Wilma,’ the National Hurricane Center in Miami said.
“Wilma’s confirmed pressure readings Wednesday morning dropped to 882 millibars the lowest minimum pressure ever measured in a hurricane in the Atlantic basin, according to the hurricane center. Lower pressure translates into higher wind speed.”
