Hurricane Isaac, currently a tropical storm brewing southeast of Puerto Rico, is on track to hit Florida the same day that Mitt Romney and 50,000 Republican delegates, journalists, protestors and guests descend on Tampa for the Republican National Convention. As of this morning, the worst possible scenario is that
Hurricane Isaac stays on the western track, skating over the Caribbean Sea south of Haiti, crossing the primarily flat landscape of western Cuba into the Gulf of Mexico then curving east and hitting Tampa dead-on.
Tropical Storm Isaac could intensify into a major hurricane with winds exceeding 110 mph (177 kph) and threaten the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Florida by the middle of next week — the seventh anniversary of devastating Hurricane Katrina.
Hurricanes draw their strength from ocean water that has been heated to at least 80 degrees Fahrenheit (about 27 degrees Centigrade). The water temperature in much of the gulf is 86 degrees Fahrenheit (about 30 degrees Centigrade), making the water capable of fueling a major hurricane.
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