Hurricane Irene

[slinkycat]

Anyone seen this? Been very worried all day because it is passing Dominican Republic where my daughter is on holiday.
Conflicting reports as to its path, but seems to be out in ocean at moment, phew!

[ELVIS68]

Fingers crossed slinky

[slinkycat]

I've had everything crossed Elvis! Last I heard she was going for dinner, but they had been moved to a higher room in case of floods

[craft1948]

Scarey when you see what happened to Richard Branson's place.............

[ELVIS68]

Ooher legs crossed as well then slinky, hope all`s ok

[Buenchico]

It's still only at 'Category 2' (out of 5) and heading away from the Dominican Republic:
http://www.nhc.noaa.g...-daynl?large#contents

[Buenchico]

Looking at the coastal areas on that chart (where I assume that your daughter is) the forecast is for 'tropical storms', rather than for a hurricane. That means very wet and windy but probably with little damage to modern buildings.

[slinkycat]

Hope so Chris,still hard to stop worrying tho, btw its sophie_1003, think you have given her some good answers in the past

[looobylooo]

fingers crossed for her slinky!
try not to worry too much :o)

[slinkycat]

Thanks looby, but can't help worrying:-/

[Slapshot]

Slinkycat, it's no worse than some of the storms we get in the UK it just has the Hurricane label because of where it was generated in the tropics. The core winds should stay to sea beyond the Dominican Republic but it might go Cat 3 and roll towards southern Florida after that. Storm surge is only a couple of metres. The storm is still in it's infancy but it's destructive power shouldn't cause the DR much hassle

[redman41]

You can track the Hurricane here on this link.
It s the first Hurricane of this Year, all the other 8 before it are classed as Tropical Storms or Lows.
Winds have to reach a certain level before being classed as Hurricanes.

http://www.stormpulse.com/

[whiskeysheri]

My aunt's been told to expect it where they live in the Florida Keys at the weekend, slinky, so fingers crossed for your daughter.