Ike has seriously weakened from interaction with Texas. Winds have decreased to 45 MPH. Ike is currently moving North at 17 MPH with a turn to the North North-east forecast for this evening. Ike could weaken to a Tropical Depression later tonight as he pushes ever farther inland. Additional rainfall amounts are forecast to be around the 3 - 5 inches over Eastern Texas. Rainfall amounts of 6 inches are forecast for Oklahoma and the surrounding states through Sunday. Despite its intensity, Ike remains a very dangerous storm. The threat for Tornadoes will continue to be high throughout Ike's trek inland.

Disturbed Weather N-NE of SE Bahamas:

I continue to monitor an area of disturbed weather located to the east of the Bahamas which includes remnants from Josephine. Conditions are marginally favourable for development at this time so if development occurs it will be slow to do so.

Ike has been downgraded to a Cat 1 storm at the 5PM advisory. Still though, Ike has a nice well developed circulation on radar, and if he can keep himself near the warm Caribbean waters as he moves towards the West or WNW during the next 24 hours he should be able to keep his Hurricane status as he moves into the GOM by tomorrow night.

All interests along the Texas and Louisiana coasts need to pay close attention to Ike and begin to make early preparations for a possible landfalling Hurricane

Hurricane Ike is moving across Central Cuba and has weakened to a Cat 2 storm. Ike made landfall near Punto De Sama, Cuba around 3AM (UTC) this morning as a Category 3 storm. Ike will continue to move towards the West to WNW today, this will bring the center of Ike across Central Cuba today and then across Western Cuba tomorrow. Ike will then reemerge into the GOM late Tuesday night. If he moves across the entire length of Cuba on land, then most likely Ike will weaken to a TS as he moves into the GOM Tuesday Night, Warm waters in the GOM will likely help Ike to regain Hurricane status as he moves towards the Gulf Coast over the week.

This is yet another filler blog. :lol: I will have a bigger blog coming soon, hopefully later tonight if I'm lucky. Watch this space. :)

That's right folks, it's September already. It doesn't seem that long ago since the year started 244 days ago. :shock: I also got my 500th forum post today, after just under a year and 7 months since I registered on this site. *more shock*

Just 3 months and 24 days remaining until Christmas. :) :lol:

I also pre ordered Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway today as well. These games better be good, otherwise I will be so angry even the moderators here at GameSpot will be scared of me.

That I haven't been active over the past week or so. Other things have gotten between me and GameSpot that has prevented me from posting here. Hopefully these 'things' will move away so I can regularly post here again. This was just a little blog so you know that I'm still alive. :P

This is basically a filler blog because I haven't finished the blog I had planned, due to being busy and all that. :lol: I bet you're thinking, 'what a terrible excuse' but it's true. :P

Like me, you will have to wait to find out! :lol: Stay tuned.

Well, I definitely can't believe that my 7-day holiday to Blackpool has ended, already. Can't say that it was the best holiday I've ever had but it did the job in relaxing me, sort of. I'll provide a short-ish run-down of the holiday below.

Friday appeared to have been the busiest pre-holiday day yet as it was mostly spent cleaning the house and taking out a lot of rubbish to make sure I had done everything so I wouldn't get the 'did I do that?' feeling. I everything packed in one suitcase by Thursday night and the car were fully stocked up on petrol for the long tiring journey that was getting ever closer. I went to sleep extremely early that night so I could be up early on the Saturday so I could set off early.

The first day of my holiday arrived, everything was set and ready to go. I got into my car at around 9 AM and began the long 300 or so mile journey to Blackpool. The Journey was somewhat of a smooth one with the occasional jams and the odd pit-stop there and then but I got there 5 hours 30 minutes later. The accommodation was a simple 2 bedroom caravan at one of the best caravan parks I've ever been too. It actually didn't take that long to unpack all of the stuff and go get some shopping (food stuffs etc) for the week a head.

Now, what did I do during the week I was at Blackpool? Well, out of the six days I was down there I went swimming for four of them because I like swimming and Blackpool has a fantastic indoor water park at the south end of the pleasure beach. I did go the a theme park on Tuesday but unfortunately I, a long with the rest of the people there that day got washed out due to heavy rain. On the Wednesday I went to the Trafford Centre in Manchester to do some shopping for clothes and what have you because I had some money to spend. I also went to see 'The Dark Night' that day and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm glad I was indoors was most of that day because when I stepped out of the Trafford Centre I realised that is had poured down while I was in there.

The journey back was a rainy one with heavy rain throughout most of the trip and a 30 or so minute delay due to roadworks near the Stirling area which sort of annoyed me because it destroyed any hopes of me returning by 2 PM. When I did finally arrive back, the first thing I did was struggle getting out of the car because my legs would hardly budge after being stuck in the same driving position for 6 hours. I then proceeded to take everything out of the car, unpack everything and enjoy a nice seat and cold beer (I don't normally drink but this was an exception). I was be looking forward to sleeping tonight.

Well, that was a quick run-down of my holiday to Blackpool. Please forgive me if you find any spelling errors or anything that doesn't make sense because It's been a long day. Lol. I hope the rest of your weekend is fantastic.