Tropical Storm Hanna moved inland near Cape Fear North Carolina early this morning. The center is just southwest of Goldsboro, NC. It still has a distinct center. Goldsboro reported rain with an east wind averaging 30 and gusting to 40 mph this hour. Hanna is moving NNE at 21 mph. Tropical storm warnings continue all the way to Rhode Island.
Ike is still a major hurricane with top winds of 115 mph and a central pressure measured by recon of 962 mb. It is moving WSW still. Quite a bit of uncertainty inthe track, but the models have shifted westward and the NHC has followed suit in the official forecast. That skinny black line carries it to a point in the Central Gulf by 1 a.m. Thursday. The GFDL makes it a major hurricane headed toward Panana City. The late night GFS sits it in the Central Gulf and grows it into an intense hurricane before slamming it into the west coast of Florida next weekend. The Canadian has it hitting the Keys and being a severe hurricane in the Gulf meandering westward. The HWRF takes it across Cuba and into the Gulf where it growns into a powerful hurricane pointed at the Central Gulf coast.
It will be nail biting time in weather offices and homes and businesses across a wide area for the next week…
A bit of good news…Josephine dissiptaed over the eastern Atlantic early this morning. Goodbye to Josephine.
