Hurricane IRMA, buoy ONGA

[Gkikas LGPZ]

In the area affected by hurricane IRMA, seems to be a buoy named ONGA that reports wind speed only 2kts.

That seems to be a wrong report.(too low).
With further examination I discovered that ONGA is the call sign of a ship (bulk carrier) named MINERAL NINGBO that is located far away from this position.
http://esurfmar.meteo.fr/cgi-bin/meteo/display_vos_ext.cgi?callchx=ONGA
I think you must exclude it.

[TZ]

@meteo-GR Wow, interesting thing. Thank you very much for your investigation!

[xaviconburns]

Irma is now a Cat. 5 with winds of 175 mph, hitting Florida is correct, but it's supposed to hots as a Cat 4 or 5, depending how much stronger Irma gets. Where it goes after that I unknown.

[ivo]

Thx for info will fix