Wilma: The Eve of Destruction

Hurricane Wilma is likely to make landfall as a powerful category 4 with sustained winds of 150 mph, according to several forecasts. The Weather Underground site says that if Wilma strikes Mexico on Friday as expected, it could cause the greatest wind damage in history there, and overall a substantial amount of destruction.

But Wilma will likely be nowhere near finished. Wilma may hit Florida, probably as a hurricane (perhaps a category 3), and is likely to affect the Bahamas, the Outer Banks of North Carolina and farther north, as far as Nova Scotia, with tropical storm force winds and lots of rain.