It seems that Hanna is going to skip past us in Florida and now make her way up the coast to North Carolina or even further north.

Now the one to watch is Ike. He is expected to get big over the next few days and the extended track puts south Florida right in the middle (not good for us). They are expecting him to continue to the northwest until tomorrow night (Thursday Sept 4th) and Friday morning when he’ll start a more westerly track, then bend down to a a south-western track. he is also expected to develop into a major (category 3 or greater) hurricane.

This bend will most likely determine where he will go next week, whether he’ll go under Florida into the gulf (though the southern Bahamas and Cuba), into Florida, or swing north into the Carolinas (or further north).

People I work with are already making preparations for Ike (at work), getting network operations fully functional and the emergency response teams are starting some preparation work. Nothing too serious but getting ready never hurts.

Josephine isn’t expected to do much. NHC seems to predict that she will enter in some unfavorable conditions and deteriorate late this week and early into next week. Let’s hope this prediction turns out to be true.