The sustained winds are at 175 mph as of this mornings reports. The increase in intensity has been truly amazing. The pressure reading was 882 millibars, breaking the old record of 888 millibars for the lowest pressure reading in the Atlantic basin.
This page from the National Weather Service will carry the latest updates.
If we have more tropical storms before the end of the season, they will be named after Greek letters (alpha, beta, gamma,...). This is the first time since the naming of storms began that we have used all the names. Q, U, X, Y, and Z are not used. We have also tied the records for most named storms (21) and most hurricanes (12) in the Atlantic basin in a season.
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