{"id":386,"date":"2008-09-04T09:25:01","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T15:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=386"},"modified":"2008-09-04T09:25:34","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T15:25:34","slug":"hanna-ike-and-josephine-%e2%80%93-mother-nature%e2%80%99s-triple-threat-lines-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/national-weather\/hanna-ike-and-josephine-%e2%80%93-mother-nature%e2%80%99s-triple-threat-lines-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanna, Ike, and Josephine \u2013 Mother Nature\u2019s triple threat lines up"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hanna, Ike and Josephine are up to bat. Click the image for a larger version.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hot on the heels of Hurricane Gustav, an alphabet of storms is lining up to threaten the United States coast.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tropical Storm Hanna<\/a> is the closest and can\u2019t quite make up her mind what she wants to do.\u00a0 The storm was a hurricane for a time but has been downgraded as its winds have dropped to 70mph.\u00a0 Hanna has been battering the Bahamas with torrential rain and in Haiti it has claimed 61 lives, mostly from flooding.\u00a0 After meandering around, it is now heading northwest at 12mph and will threaten the southeast coast of the U.S. Friday.\u00a0 Her path is unpredictable but best guesses show the greatest threat of a direct hit from Hanna lies along the Carolina coast between Myrtle Beach, S.C., and Wilmington, N.C.\u00a0 Late Friday night \/ early Saturday morning it is expected to make landfall as a category 2 storm.<\/p>\n

Hurricane Ike<\/a> is currently 550 miles northeast of the Leeward Islands and is moving west-northwest at 17mph.\u00a0 This storm looks to hold the greatest danger of the three right now as it has grown from a tropical storm to a category 4 hurricane with 145mph winds in less than 24 hours.\u00a0\u00a0 It is too early to determine where a potential landfall might occur but by Sunday morning is should be near Haiti and the Dominican Republic.\u00a0 Folks really need to be on the lookout as this storm could be catastrophic.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Moving out further from the coast is Tropical Storm Josephine<\/a>.\u00a0 The storm is currently closer to Africa than the U.S.\u00a0 \u2013 about 465 miles west of the southernmost Cape Verde Islands.\u00a0 Sustained winds are at 60mph and the storm is moving west-northwest at 10mph.\u00a0 The current hope is that the storm takes a turn to the north as it crosses the Atlantic and doesn\u2019t hit land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hot on the heels of Hurricane Gustav, an alphabet of storms is lining up to threaten the United States coast.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Hanna is the closest and can\u2019t quite make up her mind what she wants to do.\u00a0 The storm was a hurricane for a time but has been downgraded as its winds have dropped … Continue reading Hanna, Ike, and Josephine \u2013 Mother Nature\u2019s triple threat lines up<\/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],"tags":[50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386"}],"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=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}