Forecasting hurricane tracks is extremely difficult, though we are getting better and better at it. If you look at the predicted tracks since it formed, it is still within the “cone” and has been for pretty much it’s entire life so far. The error has been with the media taking the center line as truth and ignoring the cone.They didn’t used to do that. It could still turn westerly and hit Florida and still be within the predicted path.
I was a meteorology major with the hope of working at the Hurricane Center, unfortunately life intervened.
Hurricanes never seem to hit the area they’re aimed at.
I do think it’s a good thing to have these weather/meteorology-related channels. I remember the Weather Channel in Myrtle Beach where a live audio-only report on conditions on the Atlantic sounded like a guy transmitting from a row boat way out there somewhere. The graphics showing weather-related data were high-contrast bands of background and text...No footage or pics...That was during the Christmas holiday week in 1997. They’ve come a long way.