50" of rain out of Harvey when ours were calling for half that

Another hurricane entering the gulf area is so not thinkable.

have the damned thing turning sharply north, eventually going out to sea.

Good. We need a break.

Their last run had it wiping out Cape Cod. New one is running now.

And if it misses the Cape, it'll hit the Maritimes. Have friends there, too.

At least if your ocean front house gets lost to beach erosion and storms on Cape Cod, you have to rebuild somewhere else, farther inland. That's one thing the state did right.

Right now the GFS and Euro are worlds apart. I'm guessing split the difference and the east coast of FL and the Carolinas will have a lot to worry about.

but that's actually par for the course in September. It's on a major storm track and nor'easters can often be as strong as Cat 1 hurricanes. If Irma gets there, she'll lose a lot of her punch before she does, the warm Gulf Stream goes out to sea off the Outer Banks of NC and hurricanes drop a category or three over the cold water, depending on how fast they're moving.

Still, I have great slides taken after they've hit, mostly of yachts piled up on bridges because the owners didn't bother to come down and rig them for storm tides. Not only were their boats wrecked, they got hefty bills from the harbormaster for any damage they did.

accurate. Remember a few months ago,a new Sat was launched to be stationed over the South West. And it was to take a few months before all the links were to be operational.

computing power compared to ours. Every since NOAA was stripped of the Old Weather Channel to a private owner,we have become a second rate Weather forecasting nation. Yup,got to privatize the Weather Forecaster.

we will rely on other countries' research and data more than ever.

Third rate Country with first rate costs.

I don't care if I don't have a job to return to. It's supposed to be Cat 4 by Monday.

As a Miamian that's what I'm banking on.

Head north young storm

Of course, the longer it tracks south the more likely it will enter the GOM. If the high moves or erodes the storm could move north earlier. 72 hours is a long time from now, things change. It will only be at 50 W longitude on Sunday night.

It will push it away from the gulf.