Hurricane Jova Update

Hurricane Jova bore down on the Pacific coast of southwest Mexico on Tuesday threatening to pound one of the country's busiest cargo ports and tourist resorts with destructive waves, heavy rainfall and flooding.

The Category 3 storm, with top winds reaching 115 miles per hour, was about 150 miles southwest of the port city of Manzanillo at 5 a.m. EDT, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

Jova should make landfall on Tuesday afternoon or evening to the northwest of Manzanillo near the resort towns of Melaque and Barra de Navidad on a stretch of coast dotted with beaches south of Puerto Vallarta.

Manzanillo, Mexico's main point of arrival for cargo containers, has been closed since late Sunday and about 13 container ships are stuck in the port.

An official said shipments that were held up because of the lock-down, included 15,000 tonnes of sugar from Colombia, 16,000 tonnes of imported rolled steel and a shipment of iron pellets for domestic use.

Manzanillo handles about 750 containers of cargo a month and ships goods including cars, car parts, cattle, minerals and tequila to Asian and North American markets.

U.S. Open Match to Watch: Day 11

Hard to pick just one match, but how about the entire schedules from Ashe, Armstrong, the Grandstand and Courts 11 and 17.

Arthur Ashe Stadium 11:00 AM Start Time

1. Men’s Singles – 4th Round

Gilles Muller (LUX) v. Rafael Nadal (ESP)[2]

Not Before:1:00 PM To Finish 3-0

2. Women’s Singles – Quarterfinals

Serena Williams (USA)[28] v. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS)[17]

3. Men’s Singles – Quarterfinals

Novak Djokovic (SRB)[1] v. Janko Tipsarevic (SRB)[20]

 

Arthur Ashe Stadium 7:00 PM Start Time

1. Men’s Singles – Quarterfinals

Roger Federer (SUI)[3] v. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA)[11]

 

Louis Armstrong Stadium 11:00 AM Start Time

1. Men’s Singles – 4th Round

Andy Roddick (ESP)[5] v. David Ferrer (USA)[21]

Not Before:1:00 PM To Finish 3-1

2. Women’s Singles – Quarterfinals

Caroline Wozniacki (DEN)[1] v. Andrea Petkovic (GER)[10]

3. Women’s Doubles – Quarterfinals

Iveta Benesova (CZE)[9] v. Liezel Huber (USA)[4]

Barbora Zahlavova Strycova (CZE)[9] Lisa Raymond (USA)[4]

 

Grandstand 11:00 AM Start Time

1. Men’s Singles – 4th Round

Donald Young (USA) v. Andy Murray (GBR)[4]

Not Before:1:00 PM To Finish 2-1

2. Women’s Singles – Quarterfinals

Samantha Stosur (AUS)[9] v. Vera Zvonareva (RUS)[2]

3. Mixed Doubles – Semifinals

Melanie Oudin (USA) v. Elena Vesnina (RUS)[7]

Jack Sock (USA) Leander Paes (IND)[7]

Court 17 11:00 AM Start Time

1. Men’s Singles – 4th Round

John Isner (USA)[28] v. Gilles Simon (FRA)[12]

Not Before:1:00 PM

2. Women’s Singles – Quarterfinals

Angelique Kerber (GER) v. Flavia Pennetta (ITA)[26]

3. Men’s Doubles – Quarterfinals

Rohan Bopanna (IND)[5] v. Colin Fleming (GBR)

Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK)[5] Ross Hutchins (GBR)

All this is of course, weather permitting.

U.S. Open Weather for Wednesday

All matches were called off yesterday, it doesn't look much better today.

In summary, 60-70% chance of rain today.  Don't expect them to call off the play early today.

Flying on one of the Hurricane Hunter Planes - Video

Anyone else wondering what it might be like flying on one the planes that heads into the eye of a hurricane to get current readings. 

Found this older video on Youtube.

This is a NOAA plane that flies through the eye of Hurricane Gilbert in 1988

Accidental Dong Spotted on Ken Cook's Weather Forecast Fox5 Atlanta

I'm going to take a break from all the Jack Hiscock jokes to bring you the accidental dong track of Hurricane Irene spotted on ken Cook's forecast on Fox5 Atlanta.

Ken is one of the nicest and best weather forecasters in the business.

Now the pics.

Looks like the hurricane may penetrate New York City and possibly wipe out Snooki and the Jersey Shore.