Not much change in Ike…still moving WSW…top winds 115 (category three) and central pressure 962 millibars. Ike is 865 miles ESE of Miami. Notherly shear is affecting the hurricane, but the core is still intact and intense. Ike will move along or near the coast of Cuba. This will have a big impact on intensity. It is stays over water, it will be a caetgroy three or four hurricane. Cuba could knock it down to a one. In either case, it would strengthen over the Gulf.
It poses a great threat to the Florida Keys, where visitor evacuations begin this morning and resident evacuations begin in phases tomorrow. It could then turn northward and affect the Florida Panhandle. Or it could go more northwest and affect the Gulf Coast somewhere between the Upper Texas Coast and the Florida Panhandle.
Hanna will pass southeast of Richmond and Washington today, affecting a wide area with tropical storm force winds. It will pass back over the water and make landfall again tonight on Long Island then move over Boston and the Cape. Tropical storm warnings are flying as far north as New Hampshire. Did you know they had a coastline?
