Rita 3rd Strongest Ever
UPDATE: 8:15 p.m.
Tonight, Rita takes her place tonight as the 3rd most intense hurricane on record in the Atlantic. Here's the new listing:
898 mb : Rita '05
892 mb : Unnamed '35*
888 mb : Gilbert '88
Buoy 42001, hundreds of miles in front of the storm, reported waves over 21 feet before falling silent this evening. Other buoys closer to the Gulf Coast are already seeing 10 foot waves.
*The 892 mb reading, incredibly, is at landfall. That's incredible because hurricanes rarely maintain their strength near landfall. It's not incredible that it was only measured at landfall, cause they didn't have planes flying into storms back then :)
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