Tropical Storms Hanna and Ike Making their Way Over the Atlantic

In the Caribbean, Hanna weakened to a tropical storm today and may regain hurricane strength tomorrow as it moves over the southeastern Bahamas, the center said in an advisory at 8 a.m. Miami time. The system, packing 70 mph winds, was near Great Inagua Island and drifting west at 2 mph. Hanna is forecast to begin moving northwest later today before possible landfall in South Carolina on Sept. 5.

Published on September 2, 2008

Hundreds of miles east of Hanna, Tropical Storm Ike formed, while off the West Africa coast, the 10th tropical depression of the Atlantic hurricane season developed today.