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Partly sunny skies should hold through the day tomorrow, but overall it should be a nice day, with comfortable temperatures in the upper 70s once again. Friday, the high is expected to move further off the east coast, which should make for a more southerly flow or "return flow" to take over. This will in turn help usher in a warm and bit more humid airmass. This isn't the only action expected during the day on Friday, as a shortwave trough, or upper level disturbance, approaches the region Friday night and gives us a chance for showers through early Saturday morning.
So what about Ike? Do we have to deal with it? Does New Orleans need to evacuate once again? Our answers thus far to these questions are most definitely no. The same high pressure that is over our region now is helping to continue to steer this large hurricane westward towards Texas. At 2pm on Wednesday, Ike was a Category 2 hurricane with winds of 100 mph sustained near the center of circulation. Most of the hurricane models that we look at including the GFDL, HWRF, GFS and the CMC to name a few all steer this hurricane on a course towards Texas and have it make landfall between a large area of Corpus Christi and Houston on Saturday. We will continue to keep you up to date on this situation as it tracks further in time.
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