One Two Punch - here comes Hanna...

[ddeclue]

For all those getting excited about Gustav, take a look at this wind probability map...

It looks very likely that a second hurricane will hit within days, probably in Central Florida along the "space coast" area in Brevard county home to NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

(Side note: New Orleans is home to the Michoud External Tank Facility where NASA manufactures shuttle external tanks. If both KSC and Michoud become storm victims expect major delays in the space shuttle launch schedule and difficulties with the ISS.)

If Hanna hits Central Florida, DHS and FEMA will be overwhelmed already by Gustav and it will be even worse than it would other wise be.

Also keep in mind that we are still un-swamping on the Space Coast from Hurricane Faye which came through and dumped 30 inches of rain there in a matter of days.

Finally there are two more tropical disturbances warming up in the ICZ (inter-tropical convergence zone) out in the Atlantic to become I and J storms not very far behind Hanna - if they become storms we could expect them to arrive in a week to ten days.

Here's hoping that nothing else (tornadoes in the plains, a California earthquake, Mt. Rainer erupting, a terrorist event) happens for the forseeable future because we are so screwed already with so much of our National Guard in Iraq and two storms on the way.

Doug D.
Orlando, FL

[graywarrior]

1. I was just looking at that on weatherunderground

Unbelievable.

[ddeclue]

2. Yep.. I think we're about to get blindsided by Hanna

because no one is paying attention.

[LynneSin]

3. National Hurricane Center has Hanna heading towards the FL/GA borders

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT08/refresh/AL0808W5_sm2+gif/144613W_sm.gif

So that could be a third region of the country getting trounced by hurricane weather.

What I find annoying is the last 2 years (2006-7) were pretty mild Hurricane seasons. Much of these increased powerful hurricanes are due to the warming waters of the Gulf area - warmer waters means stronger hurricanes. But because 2006-7 were mild hurricane seasons, the global warming critics scoffed at the notion that global warming had anything to do with this.

Consider this - New Orleans existed for 300 years and yes in that time frame it got hit with a few Hurricanes. But we were talking DECADES between massive storms not years. And what's worse is even if the Bush Regime gets all the people out of New Orleans (and with the whole world watching the RNC - thankfully that will happen) but these Leevees were never fixed from Katrina and we may find that the evacuees might have no place go come home too after this is all done.

After Katrina we should have put the money into the Levees to have them done right. Hell the Netherlands have levees setup that could easily withstand these hurricanes and that is a country no where near hurricane alley. I hope that when Barack & Joe get into the White House they see to it that we spend the money needed to get top notch levees setup and working.

[ddeclue]

4. I don't know about that...

A few days ago Hanna was pointed at Central Cuba. Now Georgia. Expect it to wobble Southward towards Central Florida before it's done. I tend to look at the center of the wind probability field and how it's curving to make up my own mind. That seems to be fairly reasonable in the past. Right now that points at the space coast from what I can tell.