Tuesday Morning: Ike has continued its long trek across Cuba. It made landfall as a C3 or C2 and now, not surprisingly, has lost a lot of strength while overland and is down to a C1 or strong TS. From the satellite, you can see the affect it's having on the southern portion of Florida. I suppose had the storm tracked to the north as expected earlier, we might have see more rain and wind here. There were strong easterly winds yesterday. I'm not sure if that's from Ike or not. It's a long ways away. I don't know if it can have an impact that far reaching. I'm not sure if the evacuation of the Keys was upheld or not. Even though the storm has moved south, the Keys are probably getting a lot of rain, wind, and storm surge.
The models continue to shift westwards and southwards. Landfall has now moved down to the southern portion of the Texas coast or even the coast of Mexico. No models predict it going near Louisiana anymore. I would anticipate by late Wednesday / early Thursday, it will be out of our area of concern.
Josephine has slowly fallen to pieces over the past several days. For it time it was thought it might reintensify as it continued west. Now, though, it doesn't even have any strong thunderstorm activity. It never did breach the hurricane threshold.
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