They then standardized the wind speeds from different satellites, which were based on infrared observations of cloud-top and storm-eye temperatures.
Expect plenty of bad-tempered arguments over money and power with Germany, as ever, in the storm's eye.
Communities to the south of Nhulunbuy were likely to have experienced the destructive winds associated with the storm's eye, gusting around 160km/h, and very heavy rainfall.
Rough water feeds a hurricane, paradoxically, by creating friction between air and sea which slows down the winds circulating around the storm's eye.
The western portion of the storm's eye was already heading inland early Sunday, officials said, knocking out power to 2 million people.
Early in the morning of November 7, the storm's eye wall passed over Palau's Kayangel Islands with winds that, according to some reports, approached 250 km/hr (155 mph).
Another dangerous precedent is Hurricane Agnes in 1972, which came closer than any other to producing a direct hit on Manhattan, with the storm's eye approaching just a handful of miles from the city.
Early in the morning of November 7, the storm's eye wall passed over Palau's Kayangel Islands with winds that, according to some reports, approached 155 miles (250 km) per hour.
The so-called Vagabond Hurricane of 1903, by some definitions the only modern hurricane ever to have made its initial landfall in New Jersey, produced about $13 billion in losses, despite the storm's eye never having come within more than about 60 miles of Manhattan.
A couple of hours later, about 5 20, the storm's eye passed right over this small, unincorporated place, suddenly stilling the howling onslaught of wind and rain that had been driving the water of the Intracoastal Canal, on which the marina sits, into Albemarle Sound.
And so Hubbard — along with his girlfriend, a roommate, two friends, a cat, and a dog — decided to ride out Irma in his rented second-story, two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment in north Naples, less than a mile and a half from the Gulf of Mexico and, as of early Sunday, directly in the path of the storm's eye.
