Weather!!!!!!!!

[pudge22]

i was in cancun this summer when hurricane Emily hit, and I hope for the people that are there with this hurricane that the officials learned well from our hurricane.

The shelters were in pretty bad condition, toilets were buckets etc...they ran out of water 4 hrs after us being in the shelter and the only food provided had a base of Mayo. The important thing however is that we were SAFE.

For your sister, she will have quite the story when she returns however just send her some positive thoughts while the hurricane hits. She is in for a VERY uncomfortable few hours.

[LINDAANNA68]

Hi all~ This is a great board and i am so glad I found it. That said, I'm making plans to go to Cancun for the first time in either Nov or Dec. My concern is the temp of the water in the wintertime. My girlfriend and i are all about the beach and we've heard conflicting reports on temp of air and water. Also we've heard that a lot of hotels don't heat the pools either. Any info would be helpful to me, so thanx!

[pudge22]

by the way if you are looking for a good hotel, I STRONGLY recommend RIU palace Las Americas...

It's like a dream there.!

[Ana]

This may be my last report while Wilma arrive, it is 4:15 PM the ocean has grown in huge mount and it now hit the 3rd step from ocean to our pool that is abour 3 feet higher than the ocean.

Waves this huge is also something that we had never seen in 7 years living in Cancun, we have no beach, HZ acces is close since 1 PM today, no alcohol can be sold and wind is around 35 miles.

Eye has grown form 4 miles to 40 miles according to the 22 advice.

Good luck to all the Cancun residents, visitors and nature.

[lindat]

God Bless Ana!!! Please take care of yourself and your wonderful family, our prayers are with you all!

[EngineerGuy]

Ana, you stay safe!! We will all be praying and keeping a close eye on the storm!! God bless!!

[Ana]

Tks, it now begin to rain strongly and the sky turn gray almos dark at 4:45 PM.

We begin to get some strong wind bands and ocean is getting higher, waves getting up to 3 1/2 mts high

[Steve]

Ana, I really think you should evacuate while it is still safe to do so. This is going to be a big one. You know where we are if you need us.

[Ana]

I think we will go away at 10 PM, the forecast is really uncertain.

[Ana]

New coordinates, tomorrow 21 at 14:00 PM it should be crossing Cozumel in the middle.

[lvarian]

The eyewall of Wilma is going to hammer Cozumel, Cancun is going to get it hard due to being on the east side of the hurricane. It will be there within a day and it's probably too late to evacuate. Good thing about Cancun, there are several very sturdy hotels that could withstand at Cat 4 hurricane unlike poor Playa Del Carmen that got hammered earlier in the year. I follow this site quite often because we love Cancun. To everyone that's there now, I'm sure I speak for most when I say that we are praying for your safety.

[lvarian]

Last 5:00 pm discussions from the National Hurricane Center were that Wilma is gaining strength and could easily become at Cat 5 before hitting the Yucatan. They are saying that if this occurs, it will be catastrophic.
Please, anyone there that can leave should do so but those that are staying, need to start planning on where they are going to go. I don't think Cancun will take a direct hit (like Cat 5 Hurricane Gilbert 1988) but being on the east side of the hurricane can cause hurricane force winds that can be as strong as being in the eyewall.

[911gal]

I am stopping all activity right now to pray for the safety of all tourists, locals and employees in Cancun and Yucatan... I am very aware of the dangers they are facing and will only wish for the best!

[jaz]

I am concerned about Mom & Dad. They are condoing in the Sands.
They were told to ride it out. Could anybody there keep me informed
of what is going on.

This might be the only mode of communication. I hope somebody
there has a laptop.....I expect the electricity to go out soon.

Good luck,,,,I believe things are going to get real bad.

[mvcrazynotion]

Our son was at the Royal Islander. Per government mandate, the entire hotel zone was evacuated last night about 7PM MDT. They were taken by bus to a school. They do not know where they are, but it must be somewhere in Cancun. At 4:30AM MDT they just lost power. They are scared and said there is no one there with any information, but they are hearing stories the entire hotel zone is flooded. The school has shutters for windows.

[Greta]

Stay safe from the hurricane, all.

[mogolish]

Did you happen to notice that there is a CAT 4 Hurricane...I won't guess your origins but hey...if the shoe fits.

Did it ever occur to you that the entire strip and everything in the vicinity will be gone? Including all the people will be homeless and possibly dead?

Like wouldn't it be awful if you were like trying to tan and like a Mexican floated by and like blocked the rays..

Hello do you have any regard for human life. You are worried about sunny Cancun take a look sweet heart there's barely any god damn hotels left. Stop focussing on yourself, buy a shake and bake tan and have a little compassion for all the people that live there.

There is more to life than vacationing. Take a moment and think of all the people who are trapped there because the Mexican Government didn't move them out, while you are planning for vacation...These people don't have very much and what they do have they are about to loose...

Never mind the sun, it will come out another day, stop for a moment and pray for them...it's because of those people that Cancun is even an option for a great vacation...

I have a lot of friends there who right now have no electricity, the phone keeps cutting in and out...their little house is flooding, and what little they have is being blown around in the wind...

They are and will loose everything that they have. It's a very serious matter. I don't even think there's a hotel worth left staying in right now. Watch the news...all the retaining walls are in the sea...the sea is headed in land.

I saddens me to see so many people worried about tans and a shitty vacation. Hell I know you work hard to get away just like everyone else but stop for a moment and think of the people that can't even escape right now, you can always come back...they won't have anything to come back to.

[Michael F.]

I'd say 99% of the board populace share your concerns about the residents and loved ones who are caught in the middle of this thing. Most of the comments regarding the hurricane in this thread echo that sentiment. However, this is also the CancunCare "Weather" thread, which is usually where local residents post current weather conditions and for tourists to get a truer sense of what to expect weather-wise. When the hurricane passes, this thread will likely be back to the day-to-day weather reports that we've come to anticipate from Steve and Ana.

[EngineerGuy]

Originally Posted by Michael F.

I'd say 99% of the board populace share your concerns about the residents and loved ones who are caught in the middle of this thing. Most of the comments regarding the hurricane in this thread echo that sentiment. However, this is also the CancunCare "Weather" thread, which is usually where local residents post current weather conditions and for tourists to get a truer sense of what to expect weather-wise. When the hurricane passes, this thread will likely be back to the day-to-day weather reports that we've come to anticipate from Steve and Ana.

Well said Michael, well said!! Besides, yes, of course we care! Steve and several others thate we personally KNOW are trapped in cancun during this hurricane! So, it is very personal to us, and yes, we do worry about lives!! Personal materials can be fixed, lives cannot!!

[Michael1975]

@ Ana and to all in Yukatan

stay care this day, we are all pray for you here in germany. The storm hits the coast fully with more than 5-8 meters of water and rainfalls now 600 liters and winds more than 225 km/h.
Stay care !!!

[Michael1975]

Number 22 in 2005, new record.
tropical depression twenty-five is south of Puerto Rico and will take hurrican-status tomorrow, named hurrican "Alpha".
He will blow through Puerto Rico northward east of the bahamas and than northeastward to Bermuda.
I think, that hurricane Wilma and hurrican Alpha can be one big stormsystem on the eastcoast of the USA.
Stay care the rest of the day, the forecasters think, that Wilma leaves Yukatan the next night.
There is no contact to Cozumel. The last news i here about two people dying, so stay care...
God bless you...

[scubakevin]

Hi Michael,

That is Tropical Depression 25 and tomorrow it is expected to reach "ALPHA" status which means that in 24 hours it could become a "named" tropical event. There are 2 stages in the development of a system which is Beta and Alpha. When conditions are detected as I reported yesterday of Tropical Disturbances resulting in 4 areas from Wilma I told you about this one which Wilma was pulling into the southern Caribbean.

Normally that depression without Wilma would have passed to the east of Puerto Rico but the warm waters and convection from Wilma pulled that depression into the caribbean instead.

Wilma is quite a weather event and will be in the history books.

Yes, unfortunately the US Navy rates development probabilites as "excellent".

Sorry for that bad news.

Kevin

[Stephy]

whats sad is that there have been so many that they had to start using greek terms hense the alpha and im sure beta is jsut around the corner

[Michael1975]

you can read on the newssites that Playa del Carmen is destroyed, the coast gets 10 meter-waves (30 feet) und in parts of Cancun the water reach up to 8 meters, in some hotels near the beach the water reach to the 3rd floor. 1 million people lost there home.
But Wilma leaves yucatan slowly.
Stay care the next hours. Than be careful with going through the streets about the rubbles (right word?)
Sorry, my english is not so good!

[janebritnproud]

I know and I know all of you will be relieved to hear that everyone is safe, it is very worrying and sad to think of all the poor people who live there not having a home to go back to. Sadly they won't even have the help that Katrina victims had. With all the devastion in Chiapas and surrounding areas recently, they struggled to pick up the pieces with basically not much help. Never before have I met such beautiful local people with so little who love life and love to please, I fell in love with Cancun and I pray that all will work out for everyone there, be it Mexican or otherwise. Stay strong and be safe.

[Ana]

For the first time since Wilma we had clear sky and soft wind from the NE, ocean has begin to go backwards but still not have its great colors back.

[Ana]

Gama has begun to introduce herself, cloudy day, high humidity, showers at night, high seas all day plus the lagoon getting out the water what cause us (Km 2 to 8) dark green ocean.

Strong wind from the NE

[Ana]

After some showers last night, the sky is overcast, the ocean is a little rough and temp got down thanks to the fresh cold wind 73°

[Ana]

Sunny day, clear sky, cold NE wind blowing temp at 6 AM was 16° C still highe seas.

[lindat]

Ana sweetie, it is SOOOOOOOOOOOOO good to be getting your wonderful reports again!!! We are all so glad that you and your family came thru ok...we were worried sick about you!!