Hanna is huge, may become hurricane again - charging towards Carolina Coast [UPDATED SATELLITE PHOTOS]

The impressive satellite images above show Hanna's movement up Florida's coast between 2pm Thursday and 11am Friday.

The storm is looking more and more impressive on satellite (shown above), as deep convection (i.e. thunderstorms) is forming near the center. It is possible Hanna will become a Category 1 hurricane prior to landfall. But rapid intensification is not likely and our overall impacts assessment has not changed. There is little difference between a strong tropical storm (what Hanna is now) and a weak hurricane (what Hanna may become). - Washington Post

clipped from voices.washingtonpost.com Satellite image of Hanna, positioned east of Florida, at 11 a.m. Courtesy NOAA. *Tropical Storm Warning issued for entire metro area and Eastern shore.* *Flash Flood Watch for metro area Saturday morning through afternoon* At 11 a.m., the center of Tropical Storm Hanna was about 375 miles south-southwest of Wilmington, North Carolina, and expected to make landfall along the northern South Carolina coast tonight before tracking north and then northeast toward the Chesapeake Bay. But as the National Hurricane Center and others have pointed out, the exact track of the storm center is not so important because tropical storm force winds and significant rains extend well out from its center -- about 315 miles.