Ike is going to wash all sorts of snakes and critters up.
The overall “best model” is reputed to be GFDL - right now, the animation has Ike getting almost up to Cat.2 in the Great Lakes, and Cat.4 now. Fortunately NHC ignores it and has forecasters who can think.
http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/at200809_v5d.html?extraprod=v5d#a_topad
I wish I could shove this down the throat of everyone who bases everything about “climate change” “global warming” being “settled science” when that is completely based on computer models.