[b_a88]

Emily is a strong category 3 and is expected to intensify back to a Category 4 right before landfall. A new wave has also again begun forming in the Caribbean...

Yeah and it happened very fast and sort of all of a sudden too.

[kanaloa]

Reminds me of Ivan... it was a Cat2 until right before landfall.. then bam... Cat4 as it hit. Sheesh.

[RRCinci]

its 3032x2008. I think it'll fill your background

Just a quick tip!! As you can see from the size above...it won't fit right on ANYONE'S desktop...but wait! I'm at 1024x768 and it looks great on mine. The answer is to select "Stretch"! That's right...stretch! It allows resizes both up and down in size...and puts the moon in the upper right center of the screen...where without "Stretch"(left on "Center"...which should make sense ) there is no moon at all!!

I truely do love XP!!

Paul

[b_a88]

its 3032x2008. I think it'll fill your background

Just a quick tip!! As you can see from the size above...it won't fit right on ANYONE'S desktop...but wait! I'm at 1024x768 and it looks great on mine. The answer is to select "Stretch"! That's right...stretch! It allows resizes both up and down in size...and puts the moon in the upper right center of the screen...where without "Stretch"(left on "Center"...which should make sense ) there is no moon at all!!

I truely do love XP!!

Paul

I am pretty sure they had that in other previous versions of windows aswell since I used it I think but I still love XP anyway.

[RRCinci]

Yeah..they had it..but it didn't work as well. Thanks for the pic...it looks great!

Paul

[b_a88]

Yeah..they had it..but it didn't work as well. Thanks for the pic...it looks great!

Paul

No problem it was really my Dad since he told me about it so I went and looked for it at NASA's website and thought I should post. There are a ton of other good pics as well through the link e to the x posted.

[phileysmiley]

UPDATE
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South Texas gets ready as Emily's outer bands hit
By Patrick O'Driscoll, USA TODAY
7/19/2005 11:53 PM

Squalls lashed the South Texas coast Tuesday as outer bands of Hurricane Emily and its 125-mph winds bore down on the border. Its center should make landfall in northeast Mexico sometime today.

Low-lying communities between Brownsville and South Padre Island braced for flooding from 4-8 inches of rain as the storm moves inland. The National Hurricane Center warned of potential tornadoes around Emily, the year's fifth tropical storm on the Gulf Coast.

Matamoros, Mexico, across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, began evacuating areas most at risk of high water. Border officials on the bridges between the United States and Mexico laid sandbags against potential river flooding.

Emily had weakened Monday to minimal hurricane status from a dangerous Category 4 storm after slamming the Yucatan Peninsula with 135 mph winds. But it revived again Tuesday to major Category 3 stage, with 125-mph winds.

<img src="http://www.pronetworks.org/forum/images/smiles/source.jpg"> USA Today
<img src="http://www.pronetworks.org/forum/images/smiles/view.jpg" border="0"> <a href=http://www.usatoday.com/weather/stormcenter/2005-07-19-emily_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA target=_blank>complete article</a>
<img src="http://www.pronetworks.org/forum/images/smiles/view.jpg" border="0"> <a href=http://www.usatoday.com/weather/graphics/hurricane/hurricane_track_2005/flash.htm target=_blank><b>Track, projected path, advisories</a></b>

[kanaloa]

I wonder what it hit as this morning? Cat 3 or 4?

[DRAGON OF DARKNESS]

I wonder what it hit as this morning? Cat 3 or 4?

It was a cat 3. Check <a href=http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20050720-07535200-bc-us-emily.xml target=_blank>HERE</a> to verify.

I checked more then this site they all said very strong cat 3.

[kanaloa]

I wonder what it hit as this morning? Cat 3 or 4?

It was a cat 3. Check <a href=http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20050720-07535200-bc-us-emily.xml target=_blank>HERE</a> to verify.

I checked more then this site they all said very strong cat 3.

Yep it was... strong sucker as you said though.

That's gotta be one of the first times I've seen a storm hit land (not an island) as a Cat4 and then hit again (mainland) as a Cat3.