MIAMI — Hello, Hanna. And hello, Ike. While everyone watched to see what Hurricane Gustav would do to New Orleans, Hurricane Hanna and Tropical Storm Ike quietly and quickly developed Monday in the Atlantic.
Hanna was crawling west near Turks and Caicos as a Category 1 storm with 80-mph maximum sustained winds. And Tropical Storm Ike was halfway between the U.S. and Africa with 50-mph winds. Hanna is projected to soak the Bahamas and then jog along Florida’s east coast before making landfall near north Florida or south Georgia by Friday.
Forecasters said Ike could grow into a hurricane by Wednesday and could be near Florida by early next week.
Forecasters also are monitoring three other tropical weather systems. If one forms into the season’s 10th named storm, it will be called Josephine.
