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Friday, September 05, 2008

Hanna & Ike Update

First the Watches and Warnings:
The Hurricane Watch from last night, from Edisto to Currituck Light, remains the same.

The Tropical Storm warning, as of 11 AM includes the following:
Georgia: McIntosh, Liberty, Bryan, Chatham
South Carolina: Jasper, Beaufort, Colleton, Charleston, Georgetown, Horry
North Carolina: Pender, New Hanover, Brunswick, Carteret, Onslow, Hyde, Dare, Currituck, Tyrell, Camden, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Chowan, Bertie, Washington, Beaufort, Pamlico
Virginia: Counties of Accomack, Chesapeake, Isle of Wight, Northampton, York, Gloucester, James City, Lancaster, Matthews, Middlesex, Northumberland, Surry, Westmoreland, Arlington, Fairfax, King George, Prince William, Stafford; Independent Cities of Chesapeake, Newport News, Hampton, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Virginia beach, Falls Church, Alexandria, Manassas, Manassas Park
Maryland: Cecil, Caroline, Kent, Queen Annes, Talbot, Worcester, Dorcester, Somerset, Wicomico, Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, Harford, Prince Georges, Baltimore, City of Baltimore,
District of Columbia: The entire district
Delaware: The entire state, including Sussex, Kent, New Castle
New Jersey: Salem, Cumberland, Cape May, Atlantic, Ocean, Burlington, Monmouth
This includes, DC, Hampton Roads, Charleston, Myrtle Beach, Wilmington, the Outer Banks, Baltimore, and Atlantic City.

A new Tropical Storm Watch is now in effect for:
Connecticut: New London, Middlesex, New Haven, Fairfield
New York: Suffolk, Nassau, Westchester, Bronx, Queens, Kings (Brooklyn), Richmond (Staten Island), New York (Manhattan).
This includes the New York Metro area.

The winds are at 65 mph & 980 mb. It should make landfall between Hilton Head and Cape Lookout, however the most likely spot now is Pawley's Island, just south of Myrtle Beach. This should occur early Saturday morning. It will move up through Hampton Roads Saturday afternoon and on Long Island just after midnight Saturday/Sunday, being by Boston on Sunday morning. For Williamburg in particular, rain should start by 1 PM, with winds by 7 AM Saturday, the worst of the storm by 5 PM Saturday, and it should clear up by 1 PM Sunday.

Ike's track has shifted significantly south this morning, and is now expected to miss Miami and go through the Keys as a Cat 4, and eventually be off the coast of Punta Gorda by Wednesday morning still as a Cat 4. Everywhere on the Florida peninsula and panhandle from Panama City/Mexico Beach on the Gulf to Jacksonville on the Atlantic is in the 5 day cone.

7 PM UPDATE: The following counties are now under a Tropical Storm Watch:
Massachusetts: Barnstable, Dukes, Essex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Nantucket, Bristol & Suffolk
Rhode Island (the entire state): Includes Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence & Washington.

Winds are at 70 mph & the pressure is 984 mb.

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