[Strategerist]

Tomorrow? What storm are you watching? More like sometime Saturday. This hurricane's landfall is still 3 days away. They kept telling us Charley was going to hit Tampa up until an hour or two before it came ashore 200 miles south of there.

I didn't mean landfall would occur tomorrow, I meant the earliest we'd possibly have some confidence about what state Frances was hitting would be sometime tomorrow at the earliest. Possibly could be in two days though.

And good lord, more of the "Charley hit 200 miles from the NHC forecast!" nosense? Can people read a map?

200 miles south of Tampa Bay isn't Port Charlotte, it's the Florida Keys.

[Gabz]

While Punta Gorda/Port Charlotte may not be 200 miles south of Tampa - it sure isn't 50 miles....50 miles south of Tampa is Sarasota. Fort Meyers is 75 miles south of Sarasota.