Dennis Expected to Return to Category 3 Strength
The latest estimates for Hurricane Dennis is that it will again become a category 3 storm by the time it makes landfall sometime Sunday afternoon.
The satellite image above shows Dennis over the Gulf of Mexico at about 4:45 eastern time on Saturday. At 5 PM, The storm was located 415 miles southeast of Biloxi, Mississippi, moving towards the northwest at 15 MPH, with winds around 105 MPH. Forecast models are converging on landfall somewhere near Mobile, Alabama sometime Sunday afternoon. This is a bit to the east of earlier forecasts.
Middle Georgia is already beginning to feel the effects of Dennis, with rain falling just to our south. The picture to the right shows the Weather Service’s estimated total precipitation between 8 PM Saturday and 8 PM Monday. The forecast for the Atlanta area is for between 1 1/2 and 2 inches of rain, with the worst rain occurring to the south and west.
My guess is that 2 inches might be too conservative. Local forecasters in Peachtree City have the same opinion. Meanwhile, there are three tropical waves in the eastern Atlantic that continue to move west. Based on their position, and on the fact that we’ve had two tropical storms in one week move through the Gulf, if they turn into full-fledged storms, the East coast could be their destination. We should know more later next week.
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