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[RC] hurricane/Biltmore - A. PerezAngie - below is a forecaset. I highly doubt Asheville will be affected much, it is the coast that will get clobbered. The URL I got the forecast from is at the end. Also www.washingtonpost.com has a weather page where you can enter a zip code or state and get a forecast. Hope this helps. Today's Discussion POSTED: September 15, 2003 9:37 a.m. As of 5 a.m. AST this morning, Hurricane Isabel was centered at 24.8 north, 69.0 west, or about 820 miles south-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. For quite awhile now, there have been fluctuations in the strength of this hurricane; now, it has 150-mph sustained winds, and hurricane force winds extend as far as 115 miles from the very well defined center. Isabel is a dangerous, strong category 4 hurricane. The hurricane hunter aircraft has determined a central pressure of 940 mb (27.76 inches). Isabel is moving west-northwest at near 10 mph. With time, Isabel will take a more northwesterly turn, and even an eventual turn to the north. It seems, looking at the steering pattern, that Isabel will strike the East Coast of the U.S. It is not a question of "if," but rather when and where. As we see it now, the area from North Carolina to New Jersey is the target of landfall; most likely the Delmarva peninsula. We expect landfall late Thursday night or early Friday. Obviously, we still have a couple of days to pin it down, but folks from the Carolinas northward should be making preparations now. As far as intensity at landfall, climatology and the current information tells us that weakening from its current strength is very likely. (The water off of the North Carolina coast is not all that warm.) Odds favor the strength at landfall to be a strong category 2 or a category 3 hurricane. (Category 3 hurricane winds are 111-130 mph sustained.) There are a couple of tropical waves out in the Atlantic; one about 325 miles east of the Lesser Antilles, and the other about 1,590 miles east of the Lesser Antilles, but they are not showing any signs of development. FROM: http://hurricane.accuweather.com/adcbin/hurricane/ocean.asp?ocean=atlantic&partner=accuweather ________________________________________________ Get your own "800" number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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