Latest on Ike

I just checked our web-hits over the past few days and it seems people are more and more interested in where Hurricane Ike is going. So, that's the perfect blog post for today, right?

Right now Ike is barely holding onto hurricane status and may actually weaken as it makes another landfall on western Cuba. However the Gulf of Mexico is very warm (as it's been over a week since Hurricane Gustav moved into Louisiana). Now there could be some residual effects of Gustav like upwelling that could have an inhibiting effect on Ike but that remains to be seen right now. The National Hurricane Center is forecasting Ike to become a category three hurricane by the time a landfall happens sometime over the weekend. Who will get Ike? Anybody's guess for the western Gulf region including Corpus Christi, Houston-Galveston, Beaumont, Lake Charles, Lafayette, and New Orleans. However the risk of another Louisiana landfall is diminishing as our spaghetti plot shows.

We'll continue to track Ike for at least another five days. Stay tuned for the latest!