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Radar image of Hurricane Wilma as it slowly drifted inland over the NE Yucatan Peninsula. At the time Wilma was a strong Category 4 hurricane with winds near 140 mph.

Notice the two rings of maximum signature. An onset of eye wall replacement cycle is evident here. The inner eye wall would be disrupted by land interaction but it regenerated over the "Loop Current" and the new eye would not clear until moments before landfalling on Florida. The second eye wall may explain why Wilma retained much of its strength despite land interaction (besides retaining 75% of its circulations over water).

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Okay, this is somewhat complicated to rationalise. While the image is indeed originally produced by the Mexican Weather Service (and the Mexican government does not release its works into the public domain), the fact that it has been released and distributed by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration should allow us to use it here. The {{PD-USGov-NOAA}} is not entirely accurate but is the best I can find.

This work is copyrighted and unlicensed. It does not fall into one of the blanket fair use categories listed at Wikipedia:Fair use#Images or Wikipedia:Fair use#Audio_clips. However, it is believed that the use of this work in the article "Hurricane Wilma":

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(del) (rev) 18:25, 23 October 2005 . . Weather1261 (Talk | contribs) . . 665×612 (113,452 bytes) (Radar image of Hurricane Wilma as it slowly drifted inland over the NE Yucatan Peninsula. At the time Wilma was a strong Category 4 hurricane with winds near 140 mph.)