Daily Hot Keywords: Hurricane Ike Computer Model
Today's Google Top 10 hot search keywords for September 07, 2008 are as follow:
Gustav and Hurricane Fay won't be the last this season. Hurricane Hanna gathered strength in the Atlantic last week, and Ike is swirling not far behind, headed now for the U.S. Hurricane Ike is several days away from any contact with Florida, let alone the eastern Panhandle.
Hurricane computer models are such iffy things, but they are the tools used by modern forecasters to predict a storm's future movement, speed, direction and intensity. And currently, almost all computer models have the storm eventually making it into the eastern Gulf of Mexico. And that is when we begin to sweat.
But we fortunately/unfortunately have another weekend between us and the approaching storm. The padding of a weekend is only fortunate if one is actually preparing for the storm. If people wait until after the weekend to tune back into the storm's progress, it will in all probability be too late to make effective preparations.
Many people under the age of 30 are clueless about the hurricane's namesake, President Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower. Ike is the Forgotten President. Sandwiched in between Harry S. Truman and John F. Kennedy, Eisenhower is remembered best as the commander of allied forces in Europe during World War II. He was a career military officer whose training camp in World War I was overrun by the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918, and he lost over a hundred men to the virus.
Back to hurricane matter, computer models indicated Ike was likely to sweep into Cuba late on Sunday, presenting a severe threat to sugar cane fields, the tourist hotels of Varadero and the crumbling colonial buildings of Havana.
The storm might then curve into the Gulf of Mexico in the wake of this week's Hurricane Gustav, plowing toward an area that produces a quarter of domestic U.S. oil, and slamming ashore near New Orleans, which was swamped and traumatized by Hurricane Katrina three years ago.
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