Holy crap! Wilma has "bombed out" (strengthened extremely rapidly) faster and bigger than anything the boys at StormTrack have ever seen.
The water in the Gulf is still all churned up from Katrina and Rita, so Wilma should weaken at least a little before it hits the US. However, Wilma is now the strongest hurricane ever measured in the Atlantic. South Floridians should be bailing out now, and residents of the rest of the Gulf Coast (all the way around to Texas) should keep an eye on weather forecasts. This is another monster and, while the models all seem to pretty much agree on a sharp right-hand turn towards Florida with landfall as early as Saturday, hurricane prediction is by no means an exact science.
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