Wow - this will be the third to hit the US within 3 weeks!
Here’s a link to update high resolution images - quite breathtaking
http://www.metservice.gov.jm/documents/C%20Max%20480%20Time%2013-15.GIF
shows it heading for jaimaca
that is a rain radar image
POWERFUL HURRICANE IVAN CONTINUES TOWARDS JAMAICA
Tonight Wind… Northeasterly 25 knots increasing to above 65 knots.
Wave height
From the BBC:
Nina Robinson :: Kingston :: 0100 GMT
Winds and rain are really lashing Jamaica now. A huge mango tree outside my window has been blown over. It’s hard to believe that the winds will get any stronger - already roofs have been blown off.
Waves, two storeys high, have been reported on the exposed eastern shore, where homes and roads are already being damaged by flooding.
There’s been a significant increase in the number of people in shelters.
Frantic calls from residents who saw fires on the utility lines as the heavy winds continue to move through the island, have forced the Jamaica Public Service Company, the main electricity provider to disconnect supplies in several sections of the country.
Listening to Power 106FM from Jamaica at the moment.
Ivan has still to unleash full power on the island yet, but a lot of residents are getting worried by what they have so far! and the looting and shooting sounds terrible.
you can open the following URL in Real Player (or it should open in Winamp!)
Seems to be off air now 
It’s at times like this that content linked advertising shoots itself in the foot…
Article title: Hurricane Ivan Slams Into Jamaica, Looting Erupts
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Maximum sustained winds are near 165 mph with gusts to 200 mph. Ivan is an extremely dangerous category five hurricane on
the Saffir/Simpson hurricane scale.
http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/atlantic/2004/IVAN/sat_ir.gif
An Air Force Reserve unit hurricane hunter aircraft measured a
minimum central pressure of 910 mb. This is the
sixth lowest central pressure on record for a hurricane in the
Atlantic Basin.
The lowest pressure recorded in the Atlantic was 888 mb, recorded in the eye of Hurricane Gilbert.
http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/atlantic/1988/GILBERT/track.dat
http://www.weatherincayman.com/currcndx.htm
http://www.weatherincayman.com/zf1ej/wx.htm
10 minute updating weather data!
from the cayman islands
New Orleans nexrad http://www.wunderground.com/auto/sfgate/radar/LIX19.html
And let’s not forget big momma, Camille http://www.geocities.com/hurricanene/hurricanecamille.htm
http://www.diamondheadweather.com/ is the web site....was having 45 mph wind gust at before power went out I assume 8O
yup
ivan ended up going quite a bit further east of that station
hey, your prediction of landfall was spot on Virgil (re weather matrix site)
Now there is
TROPICAL STORM JEANNE and Tropical Storm Karl behind that one.
Well, there are some advantages to living in Iowa.
(Shameless political plug will follow below)
Bush should declare a jihad against the almighty, obviously we know who has the real weapons of mass destruction here. Look what has happened to his brothers state.
(end of shameless political bashing)
Really, I am very sorry for all those suffering because of these terrible storms.
i have heard there is a 30 cycle for hurricanes…and its the peak of the cycle at the moment…
well, it is sad and I don’t want to sound cruel or uncaring, but that is what you get when you build on a barrier island… Florida has been lucky for a long time :!:
well, it is sad and I don't want to sound cruel or uncaring, but that is what you get when you build on a barrier island..... Florida has been lucky for a long time :!:...and I don't want to sound cynical but once again we taxpayers will pick up the tab for ill advised development.