Category 5 Dean

The latest information from a recon plane just revealed that Dean has become a Category 5 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 160mph. The pressure is down to 914mb as well.

Dean will make landfall tonight on the Yucatan Peninsula, and it will be a devastaing blow where it comes ashore.

I am also keeping a close eye on a disturbance in the Atlantic north of the Lesser Antilles. That system bears close watching, and a lot of modeling is picking up on development in that area as well.

It was good to have a day off today. With Dean lurking last week, that meant not getting home until about midnight each night. So, it was good to tuck the kids in bed tonight.