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Sunday, July 10, 2005

WEATHER
July 10, 2005 (6:00 am)

SAN PEDRO WEATHER DISCUSSION by Winston Panton (with
excerpts from the Regional Hurricane Center)

TROPICAL WEATHER DEVELOPMENT

AT 1 AM EDT...0500Z...THE CENTER OF HURRICANE DENNIS
WAS LOCATED NEAR 27.0N 85.6W OR ABOUT 235 MILES SOUTH
OF PANAMA CITY FLORIDA AND ABOUT 310 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF BILOXI MISSISSIPPI. DENNIS IS MOVING NORTHWESTWARD
NEAR 14 MPH. A GRADUAL TURN TOWARD THE NORTH-NORTHWEST
IS EXPECTED TODAY. THIS MOTION WILL BRING THE CENTER
OF DENNIS ACROSS THE NORTHERN GULF COAST LATER TODAY.

REPORTS FROM AN AIR FORCE RESERVE HURRICANE HUNTER
AIRCRAFT
INDICATE THAT MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS HAVE INCREASED
TO NEAR
135 MPH...WITH HIGHER GUSTS. THIS MAKES DENNIS A
CATEGORY FOUR
HURRICANE ON THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON SCALE

AN AIR FORCE HURRICANE HUNTER PLANE RECENTLY REPORTED
A MINIMUM CENTRAL
PRESSURE OF 937 MB...27.67 INCHES. STORM SURGE
FLOODING OF 14 TO 17 FEET ABOVE NORMAL TIDE
LEVELS...ACCOMPANIED BY LARGE AND ANGEROUS BATTERING
WAVES...IS POSSIBLE NEAR AND TO THE EAST OF WHERE THE
CENTER OF DENNIS CROSSES THE NORTHERN GULF COAST ON
SUNDAY.

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Weather conditions over the extreme North Western
Caribbean including Belize will be cloudy at times but
otherwise fair.

San Pedro and Caye Caulker will experience for the
next 24 hrs: Winds light and variable at first then
shift southeasterly 5 to 15 kts. late on Sunday and
Monday.

Skies will be cloudy at times with hot temperatures
and isolated showers or thundershowers.

North Western Caribbean:

HURRICANE DENNIS DOMINATES THE WEATHER STORY IN THE
NORTHWESTERN
CORNER OF THE AREA...INCLUDING THE YUCATAN CHANNEL.

AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE RUNS FROM WESTERN CUBA INTO THE
SOUTHWESTERN
CARIBBEAN SEA.

CONDITIONS WILL RETURN TO NORMAL TODAY SUNDAY WITH
MODERATE TRADE WINDS AFFECTING MOST OF THE AREA
THROUGH WED.

Eastern Caribbean:

THE 66W/67W TROPICAL WAVE BRINGS ISOLATED MODERATE
SHOWERS
FROM 13N TO 15N BETWEEN 65W AND 68W. http://www.hydromet.gov.bz/ gen_wx_ forecast.html

Sir Edmund urges climate care-
Environmental campaigners are saying that the 180 nations which have ratified the World Heritage Convention have a legal duty to protect Sagarmatha, as well as Huascaran National Park in Peru and the Belize Barrier Reef, from the impacts of climate change. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4668627.stm

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