Hurricane Ike – Texas
Position: 34.3 N 93.9 W [10 PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: North-Northeast [025°] near 24 mph.
Maximum sustained winds: 40 mph [65 kph].
Wind Gusts: 50 mph.
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 105 miles [165 km].
Minimum central pressure: 982 mb ↑.
It is 100 miles West-Southwest of Little Rock, Arkansas.
Downgraded to a Tropical Storm at 1PM.
Landfall was 2:10 AM CDT [0710 UTC] as a Category 2 hurricane with 110 mph [175 kph] winds at Galveston, Texas.
Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.
Unless there is some radical new development this is my final post on Ike. It is on the verge of being a tropical depression, and being absorbed into an approaching front.
