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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It sure looks like we are off to the races in this 2008 Hurricane Season. The peak of the season isn’t for another 2 weeks (September 10th), however someone forgot to tell Mother Nature that. By tomorrow afternoon it is very possible that we could have 2 Hurricanes within 1000 miles of the US coast. This morning at 11am The National Hurricane center in Miami Florida issued a statement making Tropical Depression 8, Tropical Storm Hannah. Note the title of this post because we are 95% confident this storm will be upgraded to Hurricane Hannah within 48 hours. It will be traversing over extremely warm waters with relatively low sheer over the next several days.
Currently almost all the models have Hurricane Hannah moving eventually southwest, then west towards Florida for the end of next week. The Graphic of the 5 day National Hurricane Center projected path is below, and it will continue to be updated at our blog every 3 hours as the projected track of Hannah changes.
Understand that this storm is probably 8-9 days away from affecting the mainland of the United states, if it does at all, thus you have plenty of time to make those last minute preparations like filling up your gas tank, stocking up on water and granola bars, and making sure your residence is secure for whatever Hurricane Hannah may bring you. We had a lot of questions this morning as to the how fast Hannah will develop, as well as the projected path and intensity of landfall. Of course we are much too far away from any US impact, thus we can not give reliable data here. A Category 2 or 3 Hurricane is however possible according to the NHC. Remember that The US will likely have to deal with Hurricane / Tropical Storm Gustav before we deal with Hannah. For the projected track of Gustav check out: Gustav Projected Track
As with all Tropical Storms, stay tuned to the local media coverage and always prepare for the worse and hope for the best. I have a feeling that this is just the beginning of what will turn out to be an extremely active Hurricane season for us all in the GULF and Southeast Cast of the United States.
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As most of you guys know, the National Hurricane Center in Miami Florida is pretty much where everyone in Florida is turning today for the updated forecasts on Tropical Storm Fay. There is a slight problem though. As of 3 hours ago we began getting email reports from various Florida residents about the National Hurricane Center’s websites NHC.Noaa.gov not loading.
At first many individuals thought, “oh, since Tropical storm Fay is so close to Miami, maybe the site is being affected from power outages or such.” The problem here is that the servers running the site are not located in Miami, and the winds are only very moderate outside of Miami thus far. No reports of power outages as of yet anywhere on the East coast of Florida.
The problem is simple. The National Hurricane center’s servers are being overloaded. Strange since you would think a national government run organization would make sure they are able to maintain a site uptime at the most important times for viewers. We are happy to report that the downtime is only sporadic and is mostly just server slowdown rather then being completely down. If the site is down, then turn on your local news stations for the updates from the Hurricane center.
Stay tuned to Profiles blog for the latest on Tropical Storm fay, and all the updated graphics and predictions out of the national hurricane center. As with all storms, follow the local news stations advice carefully., and never underestimate the power of even a tropical storm should Fay not increase it’s stength too much over the next 20 hours before landfall prediction
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On the eve of the official first day of the Atlantic Tropical season, we have our first named storm. June 1st marks the start of the 6 month long Tropical season, but Arthur just couldn’t wait another day. In what experts claim will be an above average storm season, we are already off to a very fast start. Below is the map of the National Hurricane Centers predicted path of Arthur.
At 2 p.m., Tropical Storm Arthur was located about 50 miles north-northwest of Belize City and about 150 miles southwest of Cozumel, Mexico. It was moving north-northwest at 8 mph. It had maximum sustained winds near 40 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami. The center of circulation should move over the Yucatan today. Arthur was expected to weaken as it moves over land. Rainfall of five to 10 inches is expected, and isolated areas could see up to 15 inches. Flooding will be the main concern with this storm, and it is not expected to directly impact the United State.
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