8/14/2023 0 Comments Wilma hurricane track![]() The storm is the record-tying 12th hurricane of the season the same number reached in 1969 12 is the most in one season since record-keeping began in 1851. In Mexico the MTV Latin America Video Music Awards ceremony originally scheduled to be held tomorrow at a seaside park south of Cancun was moved up one day to avoid possible effects from Wilma. The state has seen seven hurricanes hit or pass close by since then causing more than $20 billion in estimated damage and killing nearly 150 people. Still Wilma's track could take it near that city and other Florida areas hit by Hurricane Charley a Category 4 storm in August 2004. While some Florida residents started preparing by buying water canned food and other supplies hurricane shutters hadn't gone up yet in Punta Gorda on Florida's Gulf coast and no long lines had formed for supplies or gas. Wilma already had been blamed for one death in Jamaica as a tropical depression Sunday. Of course these are four- and five-day forecasts so things can change" said Dan Brown a meteorologist at the U.S. "It does look like it poses a significant threat to Florida by the weekend. It was moving toward the west-northwest at nearly 8 mph with a more northerly turn expected soon according to the Hurricane Center. EDT the hurricane was centered about 180 miles southwest of Grand Cayman Island about 140 miles northeast of Cape Gracias a Dios on the Honduras-Nicaragua border. The hurricane's outer bands brought rain high winds and heavy surf to the Atlantic coasts of Nicaragua and Honduras which closed two seaports on its Caribbean coast.ġ1 p.m. Wilma became a Category 2 hurricane late yesterday with winds reaching 110 mph up from 80 mph earlier in the day.įorecasters warned that Wilma was likely to rake Honduras and the Cayman Islands before turning toward the narrow Yucatan Channel between Cuba and Mexico's Cancun region - then move into the storm-weary Gulf. Forecasters warned of a "significant threat" to Florida by the weekend. SAN PEDRO SULA Honduras - Hurricane Wilma whirled into the record books as the 12th such storm of the season strengthening late yesterday and setting a course to sideswipe Central America or Mexico.
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