Twin storms pack dangerous winds by Delia Cruceru

Tuesday September 4 was a record day, but not a good one. It was for the first time when two hurricanes of great intensity have made landfall in the same season on Latin America, with Hurricane Felix forming just two weeks after Hurricane Dean. "Since our records began in the late 19th century, we have no record of two land-falling category five hurricanes in the same season," said Meteorologist Dennis Feltgen of the National Hurricane Center in Miami. "Nor do we have any record of the first two hurricanes of the same season developing into category five hurricanes." The two hurricanes, Felix and Henriette have been categorized as hurricanes of Category 5. Felix hit the Central America while Henriette was slamming in Mexico's Baja California peninsula. The Honduran government had to evacuate almost 10.000 people from high risk area before Felix arrived. At 5 p.m. EDT, Felix's center was 110 miles west of Puerto Cabezas, heading westwards at nearly 14 mph toward Honduras. Felix could dump up to 25 inches of rain in these mountainous areas, which could "produce life-threatening flash floods and mud slides," the National Hurricane Center warned. Yesterday at 5 p.m. Henriette's eye was 25 miles inland over the Baja area, threatening Mexico's northern deserts and it might even rain on Arizona and New Mexico in the Southwest on Thursday night.

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by Delia Cruceru for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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