Harvey is now a Cat-3 storm, maximum sustained winds are 120 MPH, it could strengthen even more.
Amazingly, the Euro model nailed this storm as early as August 18.
Is it too soon, or political, to note that the primary driver behind the rapid intensification of this storm are the warmer than normal gulf water temps? You can never say that a single storm is caused by global warming, but the kinds of rapid intensifications we're seeing are something you'd expect from it.
After Katrina all we heard was we were going to be inundated with super storms, this is the first one since that year....
