Caribbean Hurricane Dean

The path and location of Hurricane Dean....please pray for the people of affected by this Hurricane!!!!!!!!!

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Hurricane Dean underwent a good deal of strengthening on Friday and Friday night. Dean began the day as a category 2, 100-mile-per-hour hurricane; it ended the day at a category 4, 150-mile-per-hour major hurricane. Further strengthening is forecast over the next few days as Dean moves through the warm waters of the Caribbean Sea.

As of 8 pm (Eastern time), Dean was located near 16.1 North, 70.2 West, which is about 405 miles east-southeast of Kingston, Jamaica, and about 165 miles south-southwest of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. Maximum sustained winds are near 150 miles per hour. Dean is moving to the west near 17 miles per hour.

The outer periphery of Dean is impacting the southern coast of the island of Hispaniola (the island on which Haiti and the Dominican Republic are located) and Puerto Rico, but Dean will more forcibly impact Jamaica and the Cayman Islands Sunday morning into Monday. Dean could be the strongest hurricane to strike Jamaica since 1950. Stronger than Hurricane Gilbert in 1988 which was a category three when it crossed the island from end to end.

By Monday night and Tuesday, the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico will feel impacts from Hurricane Dean. Resort areas of Cancun and Cozumel should be getting ready for this powerful hurricane.

A hurricane warning is in effect for the south coast of the Dominican Republic from Barahona west to the Haiti/Dominican Republic border. In Haiti, the warning runs from the border to Port-Au Prince.

A hurricane warning is now in effect for Jamaica.

A hurricane watch has been issued for the Cayman Islands.

A tropical storm warning is in effect for the south coast of the Dominican Republic from Cabo Engano westward to Barahona, the coast of Haiti from Port-Au Prince north to the Haiti/Dominican Republic border and eastern Cuba, from the province of Camaguey eastward to the province of Guantanamo.

Remember that watches mean that conditions are possible within 36 hours; warnings mean that conditions are expected within 24 hours.

In the Western Pacific, Typhoon Sepat has emerged off of the west coast of Taiwan and is heading into the east coast of China. Maximum sustained winds were near 75 miles per hour at 5pm (Eastern time). More flooding rains could impact eastern China as the storms slams ashore with heavy torrential rain.

The Eastern Pacific is quiet, with the exception of some disorganized showers and thunderstorms in the vicinity of and south of Cabo San Lucas.