{"id":405,"date":"2008-09-07T05:09:22","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T11:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=405"},"modified":"2008-09-07T05:10:20","modified_gmt":"2008-09-07T11:10:20","slug":"hurricane-ike-nears-cuba-florida-watches-warily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/national-weather\/hurricane-ike-nears-cuba-florida-watches-warily\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Ike nears Cuba, Florida watches warily"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Infrared satellite image of Hurricane Ike as it nears Cuba.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Category 4 Hurricane Ike<\/a> pummeled the Turks and Caicos Islands Saturday night and Sunday morning\u00a0with dangerous winds, sea surge and rain as it continues its trek west.\u00a0 At 3:00am MDT the storm was 215 miles east-northeast of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba moving west-southwest at 15 mph.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The National Hurricane Center<\/a> has described this storm as “extremely dangerous” so all countries and interests in the area are keeping a vary close eye on the storm.\u00a0 On its current track the storm will move over the southeastern Bahamas this morning and then onto or near eastern Cuba Sunday night.\u00a0 Latest measurements had the storm with 135 mph and some strengthening is indeed possible before it strikes Cuba.\u00a0 Whether it holds that strength as it passes Cuba will depend on how long it interacts with land.\u00a0 Current models showing it going directly over the island and weaking a bit but it is expected to regain strength as it enters the southeastern Gulf of Mexico.\u00a0<\/p>\n

South Florida and those in the Florida Keys need to watch Ike very closely.\u00a0 Vistors to the Keys were already being asked to leave in anticipation of the storm hitting the islands.\u00a0 Florida Governor Charlie Crist said Saturday, “We continue to watch with much concern the track of Hurricane Ike. Ike has grown rapidly into a dangerous storm that continues to move … toward Florida.”<\/p>\n

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Satellite image of Ike and it's predicted path as of Sunday morning. Click for larger image.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It is still much too early to tell what the storm will do once it hits the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday.\u00a0 Models indicate a potential strike anywhere between Texas and Alabama later in the week.\u00a0 Much can and most likely will change between now and then.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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

Category 4 Hurricane Ike pummeled the Turks and Caicos Islands Saturday night and Sunday morning\u00a0with dangerous winds, sea surge and rain as it continues its trek west.\u00a0 At 3:00am MDT the storm was 215 miles east-northeast of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba moving west-southwest at 15 mph.\u00a0 The National Hurricane Center has described this storm as “extremely … Continue reading Hurricane Ike nears Cuba, Florida watches warily<\/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":[50,58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405"}],"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=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}