FLHurricane.com: Josephine Forms in East Atlantic, Hanna Slowly Drifting, Ike Moving, West, Gustav Over Land

5:00AM EDT Update
Recon suggest that Hanna has performed a possible cyclonic loop and now a possible slow north turn. The Forecast Track remains about the same for now.

Tropical Storm Ike will likely be a forecasting problem. The NHC 1-2 day track looks good, after that there is much uncertainty.

Tropical Storm Josephine is maintaining for now. It is a bit stronger from the previous update/discussion.

3:56PM EDT Update
Hanna is still drifting around, recon recently found a pressure of 985 and near hurricane windspeed of 70MPH, so despite shear, Hanna is holding together well. Right now Hanna is drifting slightly, toward the southeast.

Models are not predicting a north or northwest motion until tomorrow afternoon.

Tropical Storm warnings are up for Haiti since it is gotten so close. The entire Southeast, and Florida needs to be closely watching Hanna, as it is forecast to come very close to the Florida East coast, any deviation westward would bring Hanna in as a Hurricane to Florida Thursday night or early Friday.

1:30PM Update
Tropical Storm Josephine forms from TD#10. Hanna's forecast track has moved west a bit, but still has landfall in the Carolinas, the current forecast track would now give some effects of Hanna to Central Florida overnight Thursday into Friday (Less if all the convection remains sheared to the south and east like it is now). And most of Florida is in the Cone.

Repeating the National Hurricane Center, it should be stressed that the expected angle of approach and track uncertainty make it impossible to narrow down the potential impact area of Hanna. Interest in the northwestern Bahamas, and along the entire southeastern United States coast should closely monitor the progress of Hanna.

Hurricane Warnings are up for the southern half of the Bahamas, but no watches currently exist for the US.

Ike still continues to move generally westward, with 60MPH winds.

Original Update
Extremely busy in the tropics this morning, Gustav has made landfall and is now inland bringing flooding rains. No reports of wide scale damage as of yet, but some reports may begin to filter in today. Many areas are out of power.

Now Weakened Tropical Storm Hanna is drifting west, the largest threat is toward the Carolinas, but parts of Florida and Georgia are still well within the cone. Hanna is drifting around right now, but is eventually expected to start generally moving North Northwest and pick up forward speed. Most likely Florida will encounter fringe effects from the system and larger than normal tides along the east coast, this could be more or less depending on how close Hanna gets to Florida. It remains worth watching. Those in North and South Carolina need to watch this the closest, however.

Hanna will likely weaken more today, as it is getting heavily sheared (as many Southward moving storms tend to do). Models predicted this, if Hanna Survives it has a chance to restrengthen later.

Tropical Storm Ike continues to move relatively quickly to the east, and we may have to deal with it next week. Those is the Bahamas will want to watch this weekend for it, and longer range models want to take it into north Cuba or through the Florida straits, but we have a while to watch it.

Tropical Depression Ten...now Tropical Storm Josephine formed this morning as well off the coast of Africa, it most likely will go out to sea, but some models are moving it more back westward. This will be a long track system, so plenty of time to watch it as well. It could form into Josephine as early as today.

Google Plot of Hanna, Ike, and TD#10 ( Add Gustav )

Emergency Management/County info
Gulf Coast Storm Alert Network
FloridaDisaster.org - Florida Emergency Management
Mississippi Emer. Management
State of Florida Division of Emergency Management/floridadisaster.org
Louisiana Emergency Management
Lousiana Evac Maps

Video/Audio Links/Webcams
NOAA Weather Radio out of New Orleans
Hurricane City - Live Audio and Video
HurricaneTrack/Mark Sudduth HIRT Team
The Storm Report Live Video Stream from Houma, LA
New Orleans Webcams
French Quarter Cam
Lake Ponchartrain Causeway
Metarie Webcam
Louisana Instacams
GregLeder Backyard webcam with battery backup
Maroonspoon multiple live coverage of Gustav New Orleans: WGNO, WWL, WDSU, WVUE (Mute individual ones to focus)
New Orleans Police Scanner (Req. Winamp)
Lousiana EM Radio Chatter
Multiple Webcams in Area from HurricaneCity

Louisiana DOT Traffic Cameras

Television/Radio
KATC In Lafayette, LA
WWL TV 4 (CBS Affiliate in New Orleans) HERE
ABC 26 TV (ABC Affiliate in New Orleans)
WDSU Channel 6 (NBC Affiliate New Orleans)
Fox 8 (New Orleans)
WTIX 690 News Radio
WWL 870 News Radio
Hurricane Now - Video reports from former CNN hurrican reporter Jeff Flock
Weathervine.com
WKRG 5 in Mobile/Pensacola
WPMI Channel 15 from Mobile

Other
NOLA - Everything New Orleans

-- Looking for more Video/Audio links for the approach areas, please let us know if you have any links/information!

Key West Long Range Radar with hint of Gustav

Storm Surge Risks with Gustav along Louisiana

Google Map Plot of Both Gustav and Hanna

Flhurricane Long Term Recording of Cuban radar mosaic
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Caribbean Islands Weather Reports

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Edited by Storm Cooper (Wed Sep 03 2008 05:43 AM)

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