Hanna says grab your board, dude.

[andygates]

These are the current NHC computer models for Hurricane Hanna (get the Google Earth layer here and there's model detail for Hurricane Gustav and newly-named Tropical Storm Ike as well). 

Now, long-range modelling gets ever so baggy, but a good half of those models have Hanna looping back into the mid-Atlantic once she's raised insurance premiums in the USA.  That means in about three weeks or so there'll be a doozy of a storm -- and that means a doozy of a swell.  Talk about equinoctal blow, it could be huge.  Too huge?  I dunno - a hurricane storm swell might actually determine if skean  has a sense of fear after all ;)

There's also the chance, if Ike doesn't get his shift on and Hanna loops back tightly, of the two doing a sweet little Fujiwara dance in the middle of the ocean.  How cool would that be?

The season finally got interesting.