For Middle Tennessee weather please read my previous entry.

The “squiggly lines” you see on the satellite picture above from Stormtracker are what we call a “spaghetti plot”.  Each line represents the track of Hurricane Ike from individual computer models.  We call it a spaghetti plot because the lines look like a bunch of spaghetti.  Notice how most of them trend towards Texas and southwest Louisiana.  We are still around 5 days out, so a lot could still change (just yesterday, one of the most reliable models had Ike hitting where Gustav made landfall).

However, because of the consensus of the models seen above, the latest forecast from the Hurricane Center has it trending towards the northwestern Gulf of Mexico and Texas.  I am sure that emergency planners in Houston are quite wide eyed right now and are making appropriate plans.  If Houston is threatened, I imagine gas prices will be spiking again.

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