Hurricanes On Our Doorstep Now

Okay, hereabouts they're referred euphemistically as 'cyclones'. It makes them sound like a wind trainer, or some sort of bicycle equipped with a parachute. No, they're just as nasty as hurricanes, and just as vigorous as typhoons. They do dance to a different tune, spinning in a different direction to northern hemisphere cousins.

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2 x 5 CATs

Updated: 8:17 a.m. ET Sept. 4, 2007

SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras - Hurricane Felix roared ashore early Tuesday as a fearsome Category 5 storm — the first time in recorded history that two top-scale storms have come ashore in the same season. The storm hit near the swampy Nicaragua-Honduras border, home to thousands of stranded Miskito Indians dependent on canoes to make their way to safety.
Twenty fishermen were missing, and communication to the area was cut off.

We're Not Out Yet - Another Cat 5

Category 5 Felix barrels toward Central America
Hurricane warning in effect for parts of Honduras; Belize also in crosshairs
Hurricane Felix is expected to become a Category 5 storm as it makes its way toward Central America.

ORANJESTAD, Aruba - Felix rapidly strengthened into a dangerous Category 5 hurricane and churned through the Caribbean Sea on a path toward Central America, where forecasters said it could make landfall as “potentially catastrophic” storm.

Felix was packing winds of up to 165 mph as it headed west, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center. It was projected to skirt Honduras’ coastline on Tuesday before slamming into Belize on Wednesday.

“As it stands, we’re still thinking that it will be a potentially catastrophic system in the early portions of this week, Tuesday evening, possibly affecting Honduras and then toward the coast of Belize,” said Dave Roberts, a hurricane specialist at the center in Miami.

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It's Happening Again

The storm has strengthened into a Category 4 storm and is expected to reach Category 5 status later Saturday. Winds hit 150 mph as it headed on a collision course with Jamaica and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, where it is forecast to become a Category 5 storm. (AP Photo/NOAA)