As the United States now prepares itself to face the worse from Tropical Storm Hanna parts of America are on Hurricane Watch and Tropical Storm Alert, Ike has turned into a Hurricane and Josephine is still out in the Atlantic, moving slowly across. Weatherwise in general the Dominican Republic is receiving a respite from rains today across the country with slight breezes and intermittent sun breaking through. Schools were still closed today thoughout the nation, whilst maritime and pleasure shipping returned to normal. Read further for current updates on all 3 storms, Hanna, Ike and Josephine.Some More Info to Help You Understand
As we keep giving out co-ordinates for Tropical Storm positions and Hurricanes here are the co-ordinates of where Puerto Plata is on the North coast of the Dominican Republic.
Latitude 19.5 north
Longitude 70.4 west.
Tropical Storm Hanna
Hanna is currently passing near to the Bahamas with the government of the Bahamas now discontinuing the Tropical Storm Watch Warnings for the southeastern Bahamas and Turks and Caicos. Tropical Storm Watch remains in place for the central and northwestern Bahamas chain of islands. Meanwhile a Hurricane Watch remains in place from Surf City in North Carolina southwestward to north of Edisto Beach South Carolina and a Tropical Storm Watch is in effect from Edisto Beach Southwestward to Altamaha Sound in Georgia. Tropical Storm Hanna has passed by the Dominican Republic.
Hurricane Ike
Ike has now increased in speed and is being classed as a Category 4 Hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale (to find out about hurricane classification, please click here scroll half way down article to find Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale). The center of Hurricane Ike as of 5.00am this morning was located near Latitude 22.7 north…Longitude 55.8 west or about 550 miles…885KM…Northeast of the Leeward Islands. On it’s current track Hurricane Ike will continue to move over the open waters of the west central Atlantic during the next couple of days. The National Hurricane Center (NOAA) has said it is too early yet to determine what land areas might eventually be affected by Ike.
Our weather-room specialists here at therealdr.com have this to say “It seems at the moment though Ike is swaying to the north a little more which is positive news for the Dominican Republic. Tomorrow is the important day for Hurricane Ike in relation to the eventual outcome of Hurricane Ike’s landfall. At the moment it is 200 miles north of the Dominican Republic with Hurricane strength winds of 70 MPH from the center of the eye of the Hurricane which means 35MPH on each side of the eye. We are currently predicting a strong wave surge but not too high winds to affect the Dominican Republic.”
However for your own information please go to the official National Hurricane Center, people concerned with flights please contact your own airlines directly.
Tropical Storm Josephine
Josephine is still far away from the Dominican Republic with the center of Tropical Storm Josephine being currently located at Latitude 14.2 north…Longitude 31.3 West or about 465 Miles…745 KM West of the Southernmost Cape Verde Islands.
