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All your Hurricane Gustav-watching needs - the Twitter aggregate is quite fun, the WeatherUnderground blog is good for real-time stuff ("offline now, there's a tornado headed right for us") and the drunk guys webcam is hilarious. In latest news: horizontal rain hurts.

Hanna says grab your board, dude.

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.