Jeff Masters is one of the hurricane experts who writes for Wunderground, the popular internet weather site. In his latest blog entry he discusses the various models and reveals that two of the models predict Hurricane Dean will be a category 5 as it nears the Yucatan.

“The NOGAPS model has the southernmost solution, taking Dean into northern Belize/Southern Mexico. The GFDL takes Dean through the Yucatan Channel and northwestward, towards western Louisiana. The other models are in between, with both the HWRF and UKMET nudging their tracks more to the north, grazing the tip of the Yucatan Peninsula. The GFDL and HWRF intensity forecasts both project Dean will be a Category 5 hurricane when it nears the Yucatan Peninsula.”

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