[AFPhys]

I have my suspicions, too... and they aren't happy thoughts.

Happier thought, a bit more interesting anyway, (since we've no pictures at all on this page, I'm going to put a 150kB pic): Look at this picture that jeffers put me on to hours ago, and glock rocks has been so good as to capture - it shows Ike well inland and still a very pretty, symmetric tropical storm. It is dominating weather in an area much larger than the whole of the United States right now. This is a water vapor channel picture, and was taken about two hours ago.

jeffers said earlier about this:

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 developing cold front is potentially at risk from severe weather.

Midwest and Mississippi Valley Sunday, east coast Monday.

[txhurl]

Oddly, the Midwest over the last two years has had more reason to fear hurricanes than we Coastal people.

[metmom]

Another interesting map...

You can see how the front is going to guide it along up through NY, where it's supposed to hit Mon, still at TD strength.

[AFPhys]

Those last four lines should be accredited to jeffers, by the way.

[Palladin]

I hope that Thing doesn’t decide to settle over PA. on Monday or Tuesday.

It’s packing lots of moisture.

A couple of years ago, we got 7” of rain in one day from a hurricane that turned into a tropical depression. There was a lot of flash flooding here. I think it was Isaac.

Ike isn’t done yet with its destruction.

[Gondring]

Neat how clearly the state borders show up from space!

I remember 20 years ago, they just showed up as dotted lines (and you had to wait for the chemicals to set after the shot came out of the printer!)

;-)