JULIA set to make landfall over Nicaragua as category one hurricane
Tropical storm JULIA is currently 80 miles east of San Andreas Island on its final approach to the Mosquito coast of Nicaragua. This has not deepened in the past 24 hours due to upper level shear, but this is expected to end abruptly in the next few hours and allow JULIA to intensify to a category one hurricane before landfall. Despite reaching hurricane intensity, it will only qualify marginally and wind speeds at landfall are not expected to exceed 75 knots. JULIA will rapidly weaken after it makes landfall, with dissipation expected fairly quickly once ashore. The main threat will be from heavy rain and flooding. JULIA is not expected to move into the Gulf of Mexico but may survive in the Pacific but as yet uncertain due to interaction with land. For those who crave numbers, JULIA is expected to reach a hurricane severity index rating of 10 out of a possible 50 (4 for size and 6 for intensity) at peak, shortly before landfall with a tropical storm force radius of 110 miles. Landfall is expected in the small hours of the morning, but I have a hunch it may run late.
Stand by for muck and filth along the Mosquito coast from hurricane JULIA, particularly from flooding.