hurricanes
We've got Hurricane Headquarters set up here at Transworld SURF to bring you the best of the '08 hurricane season. Here's a little something from the flop that was Gustav. Stay tuned for full coverage of this year's hurricane season on transworldsurf.com, as storms are brewing up fast.
Tropical Storm Hanna drenched the Bahamas and triggered deadly flooding in Haiti on Tuesday, as it headed for expected landfall in the southeastern USA later this week. Meanwhile, a new tropical storm, Josephine, formed off Africa, behind Tropical Storm Ike.
Gustav is a Category 2 hurricane with winds of 110 mph and has made landfall south of Houma, La. At 10:00 a.m. CDT, the hurricane was located near 29.2 north, 90.8 west. That is 70 miles southwest of New Orleans, La. and 100 miles southeast of Lafayette, La. Gustav is moving northwest at 15 mph.
Tropical Storm Cristobal, as of 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday, was at 35.2 north, 75 west, or about 30 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. The storm has maximum-sustained winds of 50 mph with higher gusts. The tropical storm is slowly moving to the northeast at 9 mph and it has a central pressure of 1006 mb or 29.71 inches.










