Midnight Tropical Update

Hanna continues to get better organized this evening and is slowly getting a bit stronger. The hurricane hunter that left this evening found a storm with lowering pressure, strengthening winds, increasing thunderstorms on the north side, and a steady movement to the north.

There is still some wind shear, and dry air has invaded the southwest side of the storm, but Hanna has moved away from Haiti and is moving over warm water. Hanna is forecast to become a hurricane again tomorrow.

This evening there was another jog to the northeast in Hanna’s track, but it is currently chugging along to the NNW. The farther to the east Hanna gets, the more chance there is that the storm will move into North Carolina instead of South Carolina. Since the storm stopped moving NE, the NHC has moved their track back to the west a bit, with the center now coming right along the Grand Strand.

Since the storm is no longer meandering, and has a steady motion, it will be much easier to time when it will start to affect our area. Here is a look at the timeline:

Thursday: Another sunny, nice day with light wind.

Friday: Clouds arrive early. Winds increase in the morning. Rain arrives after lunch along the coast, closer to late afternoon inland.

Friday night: Heavy rain and wind. The worst of the storm looks to be between 9pm Friday and 3am Saturday. The critical high tide now switches to the 12:24 am Saturday high tide….

Saturday, Wind and rain in the morning, clearing and calming down in the afternoon.



Yikes… Ike’s a cat 4! Ike was named a hurricane at 5pm, then up to a cat 3 at 8pm, and cat4 at 11. This will remain a major hurricane, but should stay on a course to the west. This will threaten Florida or could go into the Gulf of Mexico early next week.




Josephine is a tropical storm and will likely not affect land.

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