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As can be easily seen from this plot of Ikes projected path.
http://www.skeetobiteweather.com/picservice.asp?t=t&m=09&av=20089613
He comes off cuba as a cat 1 and very quickly regains strength to cat 3 atleast.
Also, I still believe that Hanna is going to pull the impending ridge too quickly to the East for Ike to latch onto it. If you look at the time lines of Hanna and Ike, Hanna will be way back out to the Atlantic by Tues. at 8 am, and Ike will just then be reaching the point where the northward turn is supposed to occur
Statistics support Ike at Cat 3 at 96 hours rather than Cat 2. Only Inez took more than 24 hours to restrengthen, and she was busy doing an about face and heading back the way she came, obviously dealing with less than ideal conditions. Ike doesn't appear to be facing the the same unfavorable conditions.
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Re: Current motion