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Landfall:

Wilma came ashore on Marco Island as a strong Cat 3. That's Marco, somewhere under the middle red stripe.

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The graphic is from a local TV station. Winds may be more like 120, according to StormTrack. I can't find any live local coverage but there are a couple of blogs, this one from NBC 2 and this from a Naples News correspondent on Marco Island. As the storm moves across the state, here's weblog coverage on the East Coast.

The sun isn't up yet, but it looks like power is still on. Here are the links to the beach cameras: south looking north, Resident's Beach and Snook Inn. (MORE from earlier)

And what happens next? More from The StormTrack's Brian Woods:

The real fun with this storm is going to be off the coast of New England and Nova Scotia. All of the model guidance suggests that Wilma is going to interact with an oncoming mid-lattitude system and create quite a storm. The GFDL, among others, is forecasting Wilma to morph into a double barreled monster with winds up the Category 3 over the Grand Banks.

This is by no means unheard of. In 1991, what was left of Hurricane Grace approached the New England coast and interacted with a mid-lattitude storm, creating the great Halloween Storm of 1991. Once off Nova Scotia, the storm developed an eye with temperatures 4 degrees C warmer than those outside the eye, proving it had tropical characteristics. The result storm was the basis for the famous book and later movie, "The Perfect Storm."

I am not expecting a Category 3 hurricane to strike Nova Scotia, but I think we could see one hell of a storm in the coming days. I just think are are in store for a good show to come.

Hmmm.

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