“Dorian Now a Fierce Category 5 Hurricane
After pounding the Northwest Bahamas with 180-mph winds, Dorian will move near the Southeast coast this week.”
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Station SPGF1 - Settlement Point, GBI, Bahamas
NDBC
Location: 26.704N 78.995W
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2019 19:00:00 UTC
Winds: NW (320°) at 44.1 kt gusting to 52.1 kt
Atmospheric Pressure: 29.16 in and falling rapidly
Air Temperature: 79.3 F
44 kt is about 50 mph.
Station SPGF1 - Settlement Point, GBI, Bahamas is about 10 miles from the eye.
I don’t know what category 4-5, 185 mph winds hurricane they are talking about because it does not appear to be this one.
https://www.wunderground.com/radar/us/fl/key-west
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Until reaching the eye of the hurricane, the windspeeds might be half as much as the max indicated, especially for max sustained. 3 Sec gusts on avg will be 30% greater than 1 min sustained max avg speeds. I tried to post the below link, but the html doesn’t seem to take.
It shows a graph of the hurricane diameter with eye and corresponding wind speeds. with distance from the eye or approx.
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/guides/mtr/hurr/stages/cane/gifs/pswd1.gif
