The NHC has Hanna’s winds at 70MPH.
The storm’s center straddled the two Cape Canaveral buoys, so there are two sets of wind data of the storm.
Both buoys read winds between 30-40 knots, that’s approximately 35 sustained (45 gust) MPH ACTUAL.
I’ve known about these wind exagerations for a few years now and typically they are 20-25% in excess of actual.
But the diff between 35 sustained and 70 is 100%!
If you think Im joking, check the data yourself. The storm went right between the two.
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/maps/Florida.shtml
buoys 41009 and 41010
I have many theories why this is so…some reasonable, some not so.