Hello and Welcome to the Northeast Weather Box Blog by Craig Goedecke.

Our Summer has been nothing but a smattering of Thunderstorms,showers,cool temps,Hot temps and bouts of F1 to F2 Tornadoes across parts of the Northeast region. We have seen more rainfall then other years if your keeping score. We are in the early part of September now and Tropical Storm Hanna is making herself known as she brings her gusty winds and tropical downpours. The airmass was nothing but soupy today with dewpoints in the lower 70's and surface temps of the lower 80's. Wow what an airmass for the month of September. 

Our busy Tropical Season across the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico continues to make headlines with Ike. Ike is an intense Cat 4 Hurricane early Saturday evening. September 6,2008. Ike is expected to head west to the Fla Keys by Monday after raking through the Turks and Caicos. Ike will then move just north of Cuba and then into the Gulf of Mexico towards the Fla Panhandle with his furry. Forecast models are all over the highway with Ike's possible tracks. We talk about the weakness in the ridge that has set up across the Western Atlantic in the wake of Tropical Storm Hanna. I believe that Ike will squeeze his way into this weakness of the ridge and head across Northern Fla and then back along the East Coast by the mid to late part of next week. The bottom line here folks, Where Ike goes and makes landfall and possibly another landfall will just utterly obliterate what stands in his way. Ike is an extreamely dangerous hurricane and what ever your local emergency management officials tell you to evacuate..do it.  Residents in NOLA have become so complacent because of all the horror shows they have gone through and red taped a second time with Hurricane Gustav. Its going to be alot harder to evacuate these folks again if Ike comes knocking to that region.  Evacuations began on Saturday and continue into Sunday on the Fla Keys and I believe that South Florida may be sent into evacuation mode as well on Sunday or Monday and later along the West Coast of Fla. You may visit my New England Weather Box page. 

More later on Ike on Monday when I post again here on my Northeast Weather Box Blog