http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/at201209_model.html

posting this here, at this point looks like it will hit around florida early nextweek, but could change over next few days
we will see..i'll update every day

path still looks like it will hit florida at this point
models have it going a little further west than it did last night

path looking like just clipping southern tip of florida and models have it going as far west as new orleans now
storm has not gained much strength the past day though...each day so far models have it going further and further west

https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/239596358242283520/photo/1/large

well this is just one model, but it's scary as hell if you live anywhere near new orleans...has it as a cat 4/5 with a direct hit
hopefully it's wrong for everyones sake there and it's is weak and relatively harmless

4 or 5 huh? That's news to me. The most I've heard is around a category 2. Then again, the Gulf of Mexico is notorious for transforming a tiny tropical system into Scrambles the Death Dealer practically overnight.

This post was edited by HappyFunBall on Aug 26 2012 06:30pm

like i said it was just one model out of many that are used for forcasting
this one has been calling for a new orleans or west hit long before most others though seems its wind speed is way higher than others though
from just reading opinions from weather guys on twitter whos job it is to interpret the models aa cat 2 or maybe 3 is most likely...that cat 4 or 5 forcast model just got alot of peoples attention when it came in

This post was edited by low-ki on Aug 27 2012 12:38am

the system is moving slow at like 15 mph, over very warm water, is it going to pass over any eddy's ?

This post was edited by TotallyDelicious on Aug 27 2012 09:15pm

looks like cat 1 tops now from listening to the forcasters
will be more of a rain/flood event than a wind event just from reading tweets of people i guess dry air was getting into the storm preventing it from getting too much stronger..still not classified as a hurricane as of right now..that one model was wayyy off , good thing to for the people there