>>>>>http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/index.shtml
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>>>>>Earl is currently 135mph, 931mb Category 4. Currently forecast to skirt the US SE coast, but the track has been adjusted slightly westward over the last few days.
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>>>>The category estimate has been increasing by the day. Usually it's the other way around, they lose steam.
>>>>
>>>>Katrina was not thought to be a particularly severe hurricane until it made landfall.
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>>>No, that's not correct. It was a huge Category 5 storm, according to Wikipedia the 6th strongest Atlantic storm on record: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina
>>>
>>>At the time I posted a message here that at one point its eye was as large as Lake Okeechobee in Florida: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Katrina-noaaGOES12.jpg
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>>You are mistaken, Al. It blew through Florida without doing much. Then it picked up over the Gulf and found New Orleans and the Mississippi coast cities.
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>That was swampfall, not landfall ;)

It was the levee breaking. And one of our biggest cities went underwater.