Re: Ike (do we like Ike, yet?)That media outlet relies heavily on GFS and ECMWF models, and that one appears to be ECMWF.
On Hanna: by all accounts to the untrained eye interpreting visual data Hanna should be caught up in that flow around the large ULL to its north and summarily thrust NE out to sea. It is very hard to discern any progress in that ridge against the cyclonic flow over the western Atlantic.
Hanna certainly takes up a great deal of ocean surface, and IF the core could deepen such that it controls all of it, then it may be capable of becoming a "monster" as Bastardi characterized its potential two days ago.
Needless to say I am somwhat bafled by the dynamic surrounding Hanna which does not really lend itself to easy intrepretation.