As the remnants of Hurricane Gustav remain on everyone's minds, Hurricane Hannah has been busy trailing her way towards the US East Coast.
Hurricane Hannah, which has become the fourth hurricane-strength storm of the Atlantic Hurricane Season, will likely make her way towards the Carolinas.
It is predicted that Hurricane Hannah's projected path will encounter the Carolinas, South Florida, or possibly the Georgia coast. Hannah is currently making her way across the Bahamas. Stay tuned to tPC for updates over the next few days.
Hanna "could be a major hurricane"
Hurricane Hanna, which is still dawdling south of the Bahamas and just north of Haiti, is expected to strengthen this week, turn and head up the East Coast. It could be a "major" hurricane at landfall, according to this morning's discussion at the National Hurricane Center.
"Major" is NHC shorthand for a Cat. 3 storm or stronger - with top sustained winds of 111 mph or more.
The 5-day forecast track for Hanna (above) now sends it ashore in South Carolina, with its remnants passing just west of the Chesapeake Bay by late Saturday. If that forecast holds - a big IF - it would be the recipe for some serious rainfall this weekend. And if Hanna retains its counterclockwise rotation, it could also mean some significant storm surge up the bay. Probably not on the scale of Isabel's remnants in 2003, but most definitely something to watch.
Here is the latest advisory on Hanna. You have the storm track above. And here is the view from space.
Ike is now a tropical storm in the central Atlantic Ocean. Here's the latest on him. And the storm track.
And that other tropical wave that was coming off the African coast yesterday is now a tropical depression - No. 10 for the season. It is expected to become a hurricane by this weekend - Josephine if nothing else pops up in the meantime. That will be on next week's agenda.
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