I’m still gawking at this large angle view of the Ike WV channel...
Man Oh Man - the area that this storm affected the weather patterns seems even larger than the size of the whole United States! Scratch “affected”: make that “dominated” !
Man-o-man is right.
Ike is pulling moisture from a thousand miles out in the Pacific, and a thousand miles out in the Atlantic.
The core is already as wet as it gets, with more on the way, and the backside is puling down polar air from Canada.
Give this a day to organize, and the cold front could put down a LOT of tornadoes. Everyone south of the center of circulation and out front of the developuing cold front is potentially at risk from severe weather.
Midwest and Mississippi Valley Sunday, east coast Monday.