Bermuda Weather Service Director, Dr. Mark Guishard provided the following update:
Parts of the island are getting into the eye of Hurricane Paulette.
Paulette is still a category 1 storm with maximum sustained winds of 80 knots.
NHC reports that we should get into near calm conditions within the hour. This has been a remarkably accurate forecast track (recall the consistent prediction yesterday of a 6am closest point of approach right over the island).
Barometric pressure currently reads 973mb here at BWS and it is starting to bottom out.
We took the advantage of reduced winds (currently 10-20 knots at L F Wade International Airport) to launch a weather balloon to record some valuable data from the eye of the storm to feed back to NHC. In addition we have been sending regular snapshots of the radar imagery for their updates, which will enable them to incorporate the most up to date local data in their advisories.
More data is being sent from BIOS and Bermuda Radio at Fort George, as well as some other private stations. Their next forecast advisory with updated track points will be issued at 6AM. Until then, no change in the forecast.