Palomita made the history complete.
5 months with a major hurricane each in 2008.
the Caymans got it hard today,
even that gran cayman been very lucky due to a early easterly turn of the by then still intensifying Cat 4 Lad,
Cayman Brac received a full hit, they've been for several hours in the quiet center.
tonight it will be poor Cuba again, for the neighbours there it looks like a record season, too.
coming from the southwest towards the shallow southern waters of eastern Cuba Paloma will produce very high storm surges.
the models predict a fast dead of paloma due to very high 30+knots windshear to it's northwest, but heck, that Lad is still walking as a strong Cat 3 to the northeast, that leaves sorrily possibilities open for very rare/weird moves and turns. that eyewall looks still very stable, it will take a while to damage that even for the highest windshear.
the disturbed area in movement i mentioned on my nov 6th post above is numbered as 94L now, but not a threat anywhere near the island, it may come up a bit, maybe not, conditions there are not very favorable for a huge development, it is far away and will not get a heading to the tropics.
let's check Paloma's strength and heading sunday morning.
Mike
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