{"id":350,"date":"2008-08-29T07:44:21","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T13:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=350"},"modified":"2008-08-29T07:49:02","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T13:49:02","slug":"hurricane-season-heats-up-with-gustav-and-hanna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/national-weather\/hurricane-season-heats-up-with-gustav-and-hanna\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane season heats up with Gustav and Hanna"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\"Satellite
Satellite imagery of Gustav and Hanna.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today, on the three year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, preparations are underway along the Gulf Coast for the possibility that Tropical Storm Gustav<\/a> will strike the region next week.\u00a0 At 3:00am MDT Friday Gustav had tropical storm strength sustained winds of 65mph extending out 140 miles\u00a0however it is fully expected to become a hurricane today.\u00a0\u00a0It possibly could increase in intensity to a category four storm with 130mph winds by the time it makes landfall toward the beginng of next week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Gustav's<\/a>
Gustav's current predicted track as of Friday morning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It goes without saying that the storm presents a serious threat to life and property with landfall expected late Monday or early Tuesday.\u00a0 The greatest danger lies between Houston, TX and Mobile, AL but anywhere along the Gulf Coast remains at risk for a hit from the storm.\u00a0 State, federal and local officials are preparing for the worst as they should. Disaster declarations have been issued by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and Texas Governor Rick Perry.\u00a0\u00a0Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour has declared a state of emergency.\u00a0 New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is expected to issue an evacuation order for the city, but it likely would not go into effect until Saturday.<\/p>\n

\"Hanna's<\/a>
Hanna's current predicted track as of Friday morning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tropical Storm Hanna<\/a>, while less of a threat for the United States, also bears watching.\u00a0 Hanna currently has winds of 50mph and should remain near those levels today but it is expected to become a hurricane in the coming days.\u00a0 The storm this morning was located about 245 miles north-northeast of the northern Leeward Islands.\u00a0 Hanna’s track at this point is uncertain.\u00a0 A system currently over the Great Lakes could force Hanna to turn to the northeast thus missing any major land features.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, on the three year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, preparations are underway along the Gulf Coast for the possibility that Tropical Storm Gustav will strike the region next week.\u00a0 At 3:00am MDT Friday Gustav had tropical storm strength sustained winds of 65mph extending out 140 miles\u00a0however it is fully expected to become a hurricane today.\u00a0\u00a0It … Continue reading Hurricane season heats up with Gustav and Hanna<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}