Hurricane Lagoon

I know that you're coming on my site to get Disney news or artwork - and not "weather" news, but we are in the middle of the Hurricane season, and the situation right now is quite exceptional. And i personally think it's important to let each of you who planning to go to WDW know about it.

Right now, including Hurricane Gustav who is now a simple tropical storm - but could become again a hurricane in the next 48 hours, there is four big tropical storm in the region. A 2000 miles long "Hurricane lagoon", for real. Say like this, it looks like a joke, but it's not, unfortunately.
Remember the tropical storm i told you about some days ago and which was very probably going to transform in a hurricane? Well, that's it, it IS a new hurricane, and this one is called "Ike" .
Yes, "Ike" like Ike Eisenhower, the president of the United States.
This new hurricane is heading towards Cuba and South Florida, and is now a "force 4" hurricane.

Hurricane Hanna is also always there, but cameback to a "tropical storm". And, guess what? another tropical storm is coming right behind "Ike", and this one is called "Josephine" - who also may become a hurricane in the next days.

As you will see on the National Hurricane Center wind speed map below the three hurricane or tropical storms are arriving one behind another.
First countries to be hit will be the Bahamas, Haiti, and south-east Cuba and all our thoughts must go to them. Also, most of Florida including WDW will be trap in these hurricanes "side" effects. So, i don't know what are your plans for the next ten days, but if you're planning a sunny vacation at WDW, i would say: forget about it, unpack the luggages, and wait a little bit that the weather situation down there become less hysterical...



Photo: copyright National Hurricane Center

May God help them...

Hurricane Gustav is approaching Louisiana and will hit Gulf coast tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. Although Gustav is now suuposedly a "force 3" hurricane, chances are that it will be a " force 4" when it will hit the ground. Even if it stays at "force 3", it is devastating winds, tornadoes and rains that will fall on not only Louisiana, but also Texas, Mississipi, Alabama and other states all around, including Florida.

And it's not because Walt disney World won't be in the eye of the hurricane this time that we must not have thoughts and prayers for those who - because they are too poor or for any other reasons - are stuck in their home, waiting for the arrival of the "monster". May God help them...



On the East coast, Hanna is still a tropical storm but its direction have changed and Hanna is now going towards North Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. It will take six days before Hanna hit the ground, but at that time the National Hurricane Center think that it may have transformed in a "force 1" hurricane...



But the "mother of all storms" as the mayor of New Orleans did called Gustav may not be this one, but another one that nobody is talking about. It's not yet a hurricane, and for now it still is at 400 miles of the coast of Africa, but it's coming from where almost ALL hurricanes begin their lives, i.e around the Cape Verde islands, West of Senegal.

Since three days the National Hurricane Center keep saying that there is a "high potential for tropical cyclone formation" in this area where you can see the red circle below with the number 2 ( the area of the yellow circle with the number 1 should not transform in hurricane ). And i have a bad feeling about it.



Four days ago, before it hit Haiti, Gustav was still a tropical storm. As usual, it's the hot waters of the Mexican Gulf - the perfect fuel for hurricanes - who changed it in a devastating "force 4" hurricane. But if what the National Hurricane Center is afraid of with this huge formation of clouds west of Cape Verde Islands become a hurricane in the next 48 hours, that will be something else. It won't be a tropical storm that will enter the Mexican Gulf, but an already monster hurricane, with all its huge power. And when the hot water of the Gulf will re-fuel him, chances are that this new monster will become for real "the mother of all storms". I sincerely hope that it won't happen.

Photos: copyright National Hurricane Center