ATL: IKE Discussion

[fasterdisaster]

I think even if he was only a Cat 1 at US landfall Ike is still likely to be retired this year.

[x-y-no]

There doesn't seem to be much prospect of Ike deviating north of the forecast path - the ridge over Florida is still very strong. 0Z soundings at Miami and Tampa have a 500mb height of 591 decameters - down 2 decameters since 12Z, but still quite strong.

[AZRainman]

Reminds me of Andrew with the a concentric eyewall replacement starting just before landfall.

[physicx07]

Storm surge in Barbacoa, Cuba.



More pictures at http://www.metsul.com/blog

Amazing. The storm surge is not only impressive, but it managed to bring in daylight with it...the storm hit Cuba after nightfall

I can't read much spanish, but I did notice 'oeste de Cuba'...west cuba in the text. I think this must have been Gustav. However, Baracoa is well east of where it made landfall so it could have been day, and it would have been close enough to Ike to potentially have a landfall like that. Can anyone translate the article?

[Sean in New Orleans]

Banes is getting it pretty good this evening! We may be reading about this tomorrow with that big flare-up as the storm comes ashore.

[fasterdisaster]

Storm surge in Barbacoa, Cuba.



More pictures at http://www.metsul.com/blog

Amazing. The storm surge is not only impressive, but it managed to bring in daylight with it...the storm hit Cuba after nightfall

I can't read much spanish, but I did notice 'oeste de Cuba'...west cuba in the text. I think this must have been Gustav. However, Baracoa is well east of where it made landfall so it could have been day, and it would have been close enough to Ike to potentially have a landfall like that. Can anyone translate the article?

Why would there be a loop of Hurricane Ike in an article on Gustav.

[canetracker]

My radar looks completely different from the one Hurrakan posted last page. Perhaps its at a different angle?

Looks like IKE is riding the coast on that one.

Well it does look like Ike made landfall, but he appears to not like land.

[fasterdisaster]

Looks like he wobbled offshore again.

[VeniceInlet]

I can't read much spanish, but I did notice 'oeste de Cuba'...west cuba in the text. I think this must have been Gustav. However, Baracoa is well east of where it made landfall so it could have been day, and it would have been close enough to Ike to potentially have a landfall like that. Can anyone translate the article?

I believe it's in portuguese. For translation, Babelfish might work in a pinch.

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/

OK, so here it is with the typical errors found in these autotranslations:

Cuba under imminent risk of being arrasada It has one week the west of Cuba, particularly the occidental territories of Pinal del Río and woollen Isla Juventud, was arrasado by the Gutav hurricane. The island as a whole now is in the imminence of an event that can extremely have devastadoras consequências with the ticket of the dangerous Ike hurricane that will cross Cuba of west the east. In question of eight days, the Cuban if confrot with two hurricanes that arrive at the country with category 4 in the Saffir-Simpson scale, almost the maximum in the scale that goes up to 5. To the afternoon, in this sunday, little before adentrar the Cuban territory, Ike were a small hurricane in diameter, but with a incrivelmente symmetrical eye, indicating a violent tropical cyclone. Critical moments live since the end of the afternoon the inhabitants of the extreme east of Cuba, over all of the region of Baracoa. Enormous waves of five the seven meters had started to punish the coast and the sea advanced as much that the waters had taken streets and avenues next to the edge in the city. Initial stories of the Civil Defense give account of that already houses exist and building affected for the waves of the sea that had knocked down the protection of the existing wall to the side of the beach. The photos that are being divulged for the press of the government of Cuba are most impressive than already vi until today of storm appear (rise of the tide) in hurricane.

[MetSul Weather Center]

I can't read much spanish, but I did notice 'oeste de Cuba'...west cuba in the text. I think this must have been Gustav. However, Baracoa is well east of where it made landfall so it could have been day, and it would have been close enough to Ike to potentially have a landfall like that. Can anyone translate the article?

Hi Physic07. In fact, it is in Portuguese. I wrote the text and you are right. I wrote oeste (west) instead of leste (east). Gustav made landfall in Western Cuba (Pinar del Rio and Isla de La Juventud) 8 days ago and now we have Ike in the East. I thank you for your observation and I already corrected it. As someone wrote some messages ago, "i need to sleep". These have been long days of work due to a rare late winter snowfall that affected us in Southern Brazil.

[Sonica]

I think if Ike remains 36 hours over land it will likely be a TS or TD when it enter the GOM.

And you see landfall? I think it will hug coast for 3-5 hours. Hope not around here. People can't take it. My shop's name is Deja Vu and now I pray for it to not be.

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[clfenwi]

Storm surge in Barbacoa, Cuba.



More pictures at http://www.metsul.com/blog

Amazing. The storm surge is not only impressive, but it managed to bring in daylight with it...the storm hit Cuba after nightfall

I can't read much spanish, but I did notice 'oeste de Cuba'...west cuba in the text. I think this must have been Gustav. However, Baracoa is well east of where it made landfall so it could have been day, and it would have been close enough to Ike to potentially have a landfall like that. Can anyone translate the article?

I won't translate the article in its entirety, but the article credited to the photos to the Cuban government.

After a bit of hunting, I found the source for the photos. The source is the Cuban News Agency and the headline is "Ike causes coastal flooding in Baracoa"

ADDITION:

And I just noticed that the Cuban News Agency in turn credits Solvision, a Guantanamo based television station for the pictures.

[jeffscout]

I can't read much spanish, but I did notice 'oeste de Cuba'...west cuba in the text. I think this must have been Gustav. However, Baracoa is well east of where it made landfall so it could have been day, and it would have been close enough to Ike to potentially have a landfall like that. Can anyone translate the article?

Hi Physic07. In fact, it is in Portuguese. I wrote the text and you are right. I wrote oeste (west) instead of leste (east). Gustav made landfall in Western Cuba (Pinar del Rio and Isla de La Juventud) 8 days ago and now we have Ike in the East. I thank you for your observation and I already corrected it. As someone wrote some messages ago, "i need to sleep". These have been long days of work due to a rare late winter snowfall that affected us in Southern Brazil.

So the photo is not of Ike?

[terrapintransit]

My radar looks completely different from the one Hurrakan posted last page. Perhaps its at a different angle?

Looks like IKE is riding the coast on that one.

Well it does look like Ike made landfall, but he appears to not like land.

Just wonder if this was the trend the NHC was picking up on when determining the long range intensity forecast.

[Max_Power]

Storm surge in Barbacoa, Cuba.



More pictures at http://www.metsul.com/blog

Amazing. The storm surge is not only impressive, but it managed to bring in daylight with it...the storm hit Cuba after nightfall

The swell from a storm will reach land long before the storm itself.

[MetSul Weather Center]

After a bit of hunting, I found the source for the photos. The source is the Cuban News Agency and the headline is "Ike causes coastal flooding in Baracoa"

And the Cuban news agency is the same for Cuban government. The country has no free press and all the medias outlets are government controlled and operated : Granma, Trabajadores, Radio Reloj, etc.

[AZRainman]

Hurricane Ike makes Cuban landfall
State-run television showed waves slapping into the seawall and surging as high as nearby five-story apartment buildings before flooding the streets of the city of Baracoa near the eastern tip of the communist-ruled island.

http://www.france24.com/en/20080908-hurricane-ike-makes-cuban-landfall-haiti

[Just Joshing You]

Is it just me or did Ike hit land and just.. bounce off it?

[fasterdisaster]

Is it just me or did Ike hit land and just.. bounce off it?

He made landfall on a small peninsula, I was trying to tell people if he went west he would go back into water but people thought I was crazy apparently.

[canetracker]

Is it just me or did Ike hit land and just.. bounce off it?

Well the radar doesn't lie. This is bad for Cuba.