{"id":395,"date":"2008-09-06T04:37:08","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T10:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=395"},"modified":"2008-09-06T04:37:08","modified_gmt":"2008-09-06T10:37:08","slug":"hanna-makes-landfall-ike-continues-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/national-weather\/hanna-makes-landfall-ike-continues-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanna makes landfall, Ike continues west"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tropical Storm Hanna has made landfall in the Carolina's. Click for larger view.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What could probably be called “storm weekend” for the east coast hit in earnest early Saturday morning as Tropical Storm Hanna<\/a> made landfall along the North Carolina \/ South Carolina border.\u00a0 With sustained winds of 60 mph the center of Hanna was located about 25 miles west-northwest of Wilmington, N.C. as of 3:00am MDT.\u00a0 The storm will follow the eastern seaboard today where heavy rain and strong winds are\u00a0expected and tropical storm warnings have been issued from Virgina to Boston.\u00a0 Travel delays, flooding and\u00a0some beach erosion\u00a0along the coast are an almost certainty.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Everyone is really keeping a wary eye on Hurricane Ike<\/a>, a storm that has the potential to cause serious damage.\u00a0 As of 3:00am MDT was 400 miles west of Mayaguana in the Turks Islands and moving west-southwest at at 16 mph.\u00a0 With winds of 115 mph Ike is a category three hurricane.\u00a0 Some fluctuations in intensity are expected over the next 48 hours but it should remain a major hurricane.\u00a0 Models indicate the storm will pass through the Florida straights with Cuba having the potential to suffer a big hit from the storm Monday and into Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Hurricane Ike continues its trek westward. Click for larger view.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One thing that has changed over the last 36 hours or so is Ike’s forecast path.\u00a0 Initially expected to “hook” and turn north onto Florida, it now looks like the storm will pass just off the southern tip of the state and head into the Gulf of Mexico.\u00a0 This of course is not good news for the storm weary states along the Gulf Coast.\u00a0 Further, some convection is expected once it hits the gulf and if this occurs, the storm will strengthen, possibly to a category 4 storm.\u00a0 Ike is still too far out to draw too many conclusions on where its ultimate path will lead and the models all differ on their opinions.\u00a0 However, once the storm enters the Gulf of Mexico toward the middle of next week, Gulf Coast residents should be prepared to evacuate if needed.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

For the latest on the storms’ locations, please visit the <\/strong>ThorntonWeather.com Hurricane Tracker<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What could probably be called “storm weekend” for the east coast hit in earnest early Saturday morning as Tropical Storm Hanna made landfall along the North Carolina \/ South Carolina border.\u00a0 With sustained winds of 60 mph the center of Hanna was located about 25 miles west-northwest of Wilmington, N.C. as of 3:00am MDT.\u00a0 The … Continue reading Hanna makes landfall, Ike continues west<\/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\/395"}],"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=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}