Hurricane Ike slides back into hot water

Hurricane Ike has been holding steady at about the 2.1 latitude mark for the past 24 hours. For that matter it is has basically been on that track for several days. That is a direct west heading.

The forecast calls for a turn slightly to the north to follow Cuba. It is not out of the realm now that it will go along Cuba's south shore over the water. It went in a straight diagonal path west across Cuba, hitting the third largest city Camaguey, a large dairy center , where the radar is now out of service.

It has emerged into a shallow coastal bay that is protected by barrier islands. The latest National Hurricane Center Advisory still has it as a category 2 storm with 100 miles per hour winds and heading due west at 14 mph. It expects it to slide up the Cuba, now though, much of that sliding may be over open water (of sorts).

Though, Camaguey radar is out, you can still track the storm with the Pico de San Juan radar from Cuba.

You can now watch the storm approaching (in about 36 hours) from a Key West, Florida beach cam. And this cam at Mallory Square

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Here's NOAA's latest high resolution picture of Ike just crossing Cuba