Hurricane Wilma's outer eye slams Mexican shoreline
Image source: National Hurricane Center / NOAA
Via MSNBC.
The outer eyewall of Hurricane Wilma slammed into Cozumel on Friday, as forecasters warned that a slower and slightly weaker Wilma could sit over Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula for two days and that landfall in Florida is now not likely until Monday — assuming Wilma even heads that way.
Wilma was on a long, grinding march across Mexico’s resort-studded coastline, where thousands of stranded tourists hunkered down in shelters and hotel ballrooms.
High winds from the Category 4 hurricane — once the most intense on record in the Americas — were hitting Cozumel, a popular Mexican island for divers and cruise ship passengers, where hundreds of residents and 1,000 tourists were riding out the hurricane.
posted by Fergie @ 10/21/2005 07:10:00 AM
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