Quote Originally Posted by Red Harvest
Good grief, the lowest central pressure ever recorded 882, and from tropical storm to the strongest Category 5 ever in less than 24 hours!!! I'm sure that water temp had nothing to do with it...yeah right...

However its not even in the Gulf of Mexico yet - still in the Caribbean Sea - if it misses the Yutan or just takes a glancing blow on it (which is what the course predictin has) - when it hits the southern portion of the Gulf of Mexico - it could potentially become much worse.