Hurricane Ike,currently at Cat.1 after ravaging Cuba is now free from any land suffocation and headed into the gulf of mexico with a large stretch of warm water to cross-this could become a huge Hurricane-let's hope not for the sake of the South west!
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/grap...nd120#contents
Ike is now a cat 2 and at 947mb @0327 am GMT