Hanna heads toward US as Ike a few days behind
source: http://www.reuters.com/article/americasCrisis/idUSN04297790
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* Hanna could become hurricane before hitting Carolinas
* Hanna death toll rises to 90 in Haiti
* Ike grows to Category 4 storm, could threaten Bahamas
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Powerful Hurricane Ike charged across the Atlantic toward the Bahamas and the U.S. east coast on Thursday while Tropical Storm Hanna's death toll from floods and mudslides in Haiti grew to 90.
Hanna churned just east of the far-flung Bahamian chain of 700 islands on a path that was expected to take it to the U.S. East Coast near the South Carolina-North Carolina border on Saturday as a weak hurricane.
Ike posed no immediate threat to land and it remained too early to say if it would threaten Caribbean islands, the U.S. East Coast or the U.S. oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico.
Ike hurricane weakened slightly on Thursday after growing explosively in the space of a few hours on Wednesday from a tropical storm to an intense Category 4 hurricane on the five-step Saffir-Simpson intensity scale.
Tropical Storm Josephine also marched across the Atlantic on a westward course behind Ike but it had begun to weaken.
The burst of storm activity followed Hurricane Gustav's rampage through the Caribbean to the Louisiana coast, where it slammed ashore on Monday west of New Orleans, largely sparing the city devastated by Hurricane Katrina three years ago.
The flurry of storms was a clear signal that this six-month hurricane season is on track to be a ferociously busy one, though not like record-busting 2005 when 28 tropical storms, including Katrina, rolled across the Atlantic and Caribbean.
* Hanna death toll rises to 90 in Haiti
* Ike grows to Category 4 storm, could threaten Bahamas
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Powerful Hurricane Ike charged across the Atlantic toward the Bahamas and the U.S. east coast on Thursday while Tropical Storm Hanna's death toll from floods and mudslides in Haiti grew to 90.
Hanna churned just east of the far-flung Bahamian chain of 700 islands on a path that was expected to take it to the U.S. East Coast near the South Carolina-North Carolina border on Saturday as a weak hurricane.
Ike posed no immediate threat to land and it remained too early to say if it would threaten Caribbean islands, the U.S. East Coast or the U.S. oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico.
Ike hurricane weakened slightly on Thursday after growing explosively in the space of a few hours on Wednesday from a tropical storm to an intense Category 4 hurricane on the five-step Saffir-Simpson intensity scale.
Tropical Storm Josephine also marched across the Atlantic on a westward course behind Ike but it had begun to weaken.
The burst of storm activity followed Hurricane Gustav's rampage through the Caribbean to the Louisiana coast, where it slammed ashore on Monday west of New Orleans, largely sparing the city devastated by Hurricane Katrina three years ago.
The flurry of storms was a clear signal that this six-month hurricane season is on track to be a ferociously busy one, though not like record-busting 2005 when 28 tropical storms, including Katrina, rolled across the Atlantic and Caribbean.
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