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Comments
It's 08.20HR 2Aug2006, about 22 hours after your posting, so I might be comparing apples to your oranges. TPC's Discussions and the 5-Day Forecast Maps are starting to look a little more ominous for residents along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. You're correct that we should expect these storms to do the unexpected. Considering the forecast track showing Chris off the southern tip of Florida in the Straits in 4-5 days, and the history of the last two storms that entered the Straits on a westerly track (Katrina and Rita), I would think we definitely should be concerned whether Chris is going for the three-peat. Of course, 5 days is an aeon in hurricane forecasting time, and the future of that east-west ridge running from the US Southwest out into the Atlantic will probably have a big say in what Chris does, but if I lived in Galveston or Morgan City, LA, or Pascagoula, MS, I think I'd be a little antsy right now.
Posted by: Robert Loskot | August 2, 2006 8:32 AM