Forecast credited with giving accurate prediction of Wilma.

Publication: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)

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Byline: Ken Kaye and Robert Nolin

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ She flew in like a Halloween witch, after haunting Florida for more than a week.

Then she attacked, much more viciously than expected.

Forecasters had said Hurricane Wilma might be sapped of energy after pounding Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula on Friday and Saturday. Plus, they said, a cold front might shear it.

But no such luck.

"The shear was there, but this was a large hurricane," said Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami-Dade County. "It seemed to create its own environment and the shear didn't make an impact."...

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