TS Hanna - Thursday Mid Morning

Thursday Mid Morning: Once again the forecast has shifted Hanna to the east. The more east it goes, the better it is for us. It’s beginning to affect the Bahamas so I’ll probably hear more about shipping problems BSF will have for its location there. It is still a TS but expected to become a Hurricane sometime before it reaches 30 degrees longitude. Landfall is now expected anywhere from Mid S. Carolina to the N. Carolina Cape as a C1 early Saturday morning.

Ike has significantly strengthened to a C4! Jeff Masters from Weather Underground explained the scientific way in which one tropical storm on the heels of another can follow the same track. That’s rather disconcerting knowing that a C4 is coming up behind Hanna. At the same time, Hanna is using a lot of the ocean’s strength as it passes by so Ike won’t has as much to pull from and may weaken a lot as it gets nearer.

Josephine is still a TS and so far is following the path the models have expected it to, heading more north into the open Atlantic like Bertha did early in the season.