The hurricane center's five-day forecast places a landfall anywhere from Galveston, Texas, east to Mobile, Alabama.

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The hurricane center's five-day forecast map shows Ike arriving near the Turks and Caicos Islands and the southeastern Bahamas on Sunday.

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The latest five-day forecast from the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida, has the storm making landfall near Galveston late Friday or early Saturday.

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The app lacks some of the features of a regular weather app (like a five-day forecast or satellite maps), and it sticks to the current weather only.

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Local and regional weather patterns are more difficult to predict, as anyone who has relied on a five-day weather forecast can understand.

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