Although, not officially Hurricane Ike as of yet, we do feel Tropical storm Ike will become a Hurricane within 24 hours. This Tropical season is off to an incredible start. Remember folks, September 10th is the Peak of the season, thus we are a good week away from the peak. Now, onto the projected path of Ike. The national hurricane center is predicting Ike to track pretty rapidly towards the west for the next 4 days then they expect the path to go slightly to the south of west.
Below I have pasted the current projected path that the NHC predicts will culminate over the next 5 days. The image below is constantly updated every 3 hours and will be for the remainder of the storm:
Ike is a storm that should start getting media attention here soon. Although we are more then 5 days out of any United states landfall, it looks like Ike could possibly track into the Gulf of Mexico, possibly over the peninsula of Florida sometime early next week. This could end up a very dangerous path if in fact Florida is also affected by Hurricane Hanna, which the National Hurricane center is currently predicting.
Now that we gave you the projected path, lets talk intensity. Currently the experts predict that Ike will be somewhere in the Bahama’s come Sunday September 7th with possible maximum sustained winds at around 90-100 Miles per hour, making this a strong category 2 Hurricane. All interests along the United States Gulf and Atlantic Coasts need to follow the developments of Ike, and make sure you have your safety kits prepared in case the path takes him your way.
As a side note, the current track of Ike looks all too familiar to the one Hurricane Andrew took back in the 1990′s. I sure hope the outcome isn’t the same.
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