Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Hanna

It is looking like Hanna is going to be paying us a visit on Sunday.The current forecast track has the storm moving up the east coast of the US and into the maritimes over the next 4 to 5 days.

Two more storms are now active in the tropics along with Hanna.They are Ike and Josephine.Ike is forecast to move westerly towards southern Florida while Josephine is moving north westward towards Bermuda.

Hanna leaves 10 dead in Haiti



PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos — Hanna caused killer floods in Haiti on Tuesday, and even as it weakened to a tropical storm, forecasters said it threatens to hit the U.S. East Coast as a hurricane.

Ten bodies were found Tuesday in Gonaives along Haiti’s western coast, said Marie Alta Jean-Baptiste, the country’s civil protection director, and a university student drowned in Puerto Rico.

"The situation is as bad as it can be," said Vadre Louis, a UN investigator based in Gonaives. "The wind is ripping up trees. Houses are flooded with water. Cars can’t drive on the street. You can’t rescue anyone wherever they may be."

Hanna’s relentless rains hit Haiti’s northern edge a week after hurricane Gustav drenched central and southern Haiti and two weeks after tropical storm Fay struck the country. More than 100 Haitians have died from floods and mudslides caused by the three storms.

Hanna’s maximum sustained winds slipped to 110 km/h, but the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said it still has the potential to become a hurricane again by Thursday.

The hurricane centre said its forecast track would carry Hanna toward "the east coast of Florida, Georgia or South Carolina in two to three days."

But it said the track was uncertain and that the entire Southeastern U.S. coast should closely monitor the storm.

Forecasters said they expected it eventually to head toward the northwest and reach the central Bahamas by Wednesday.

Meanwhile, newly formed tropical storm Ike was cruising westward across the central Atlantic and was projected to near the storm-weary Bahamas by Sunday. It had winds of 95 km/h and could become a hurricane on Wednesday. Still further to the east, tropical storm Josephine formed Tuesday and it was heading west at about 24 km/h, with maximum sustained winds of about 65 km/h. The hurricane centre said it could near hurricane force by today or Thursday.

More than 8,000 Haitians remain homeless in the wake of hurricane Gustav, which was downgraded to a tropical storm as it moved over central Louisiana late Monday.

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Note: The temps shown in the forecast block in this blog are reported from the nearest local weather station located at Western Head which is very near the ocean. The temps there are quite different than here usually.

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