The Tropics: After Gustav, There’s Hanna And Ike And Josephine

September 2, 2008

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Gustav is expected to fade away into a rainy low over Texas and Oklahoma this week, turning attention to the next round of tropical systems…Hanna and Ike and now Josephine.

Hurricane Hanna was located near the southern Bahamas. A category one hurricane, Hanna is expected strengthen this week and head west then northwest toward the U.S. Coast. Hanna is expected to make landfall on the South Carolina coast near the Georgia line Friday afternoon as a category two hurricane.

From his location in the middle of the Atlantic, Tropical Storm Ike is forecast to become a category two hurricane moving west toward southern Bahamas by the weekend.  Long range forecast models have Ike potentially moving toward southern Florida or even the Gulf of Mexico by early next week.

Behind Ike is Tropical Storm Johsephine,  just off the coast of Africa. Preliminary forecast models have the area approaching hurricane status in three days. But those models also have it beginning a turn out to the middle of the Atlantic and not becoming a threat to land anywhere.

Pictured above: A satellite image showing Gustav making landfall in Louisiana (left) and Hurricane Hanna over the southern Bahamas (right).

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One Response to “The Tropics: After Gustav, There’s Hanna And Ike And Josephine”

  1. Beegee on September 2nd, 2008 10:00 pm

    That is an awesome picture!!!!! Thanks so much for all you do and all you go through just to make sure your fans have the latest news!!!!!

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