Rita Threatens Keys
Mandatory evacuations were issued yesterday for the lower Florida keys. This afternoon the upper keys were also evacuated and the hurricane warning was extended northward to Florida City- encompassing Miami-Dade county as well.
Tropical Storm Rita is expected to strengten to a hurricane later today and hit Key West as a category 2 hurricane Tuesday evening. Rita is moving WNW at 12 mph and is about 400 miles ESE of Key West, FL.
Here you can also see Hurricane Phillippe and a tropical wave off the coast of Africa. Maybe I can coax Meteosat 8 into giving you an update on that wave.
Brace yourselves, Texas- Rita might be headed for you next.
~~GOES 12~~
Tropical Storm Rita is expected to strengten to a hurricane later today and hit Key West as a category 2 hurricane Tuesday evening. Rita is moving WNW at 12 mph and is about 400 miles ESE of Key West, FL.
Here you can also see Hurricane Phillippe and a tropical wave off the coast of Africa. Maybe I can coax Meteosat 8 into giving you an update on that wave.
Brace yourselves, Texas- Rita might be headed for you next.
~~GOES 12~~