AFN News is showing it currently at Cat 2....???
Perhaps not as entertaining as Geraldo, but Weather Channel reporting “6 feet of water in downtown Galveston”....
It’s still a Cat 2, eye closing up in fact. 100 MPH wind on surface, NHC still showing 110 MPH.
As of 20 minutes ago, 100+ mph surface winds were reported - it is still a cat 2 hurricane - just ignore that poster.
Yes its a cat 2 and dying.
Here is the problem:
“Although still of Category 2 strength, Ike remains larger and more powerful than Category 5 Katrina or Category 5 Rita. As I discussed in yesterday’s blog entry, a good measure of the storm surge potential is Integrated Kinetic Energy (IKE). Ike’s Integrated Kinetic Energy has fallen from 149 Terajoules this morning to 124”
This means that some beach homes could be busted up from relentless waves over a long period. But the storm is already dying.
No one is gonna get killed unless they stayed on the beach