She's getting bigger.
Circulations tend to spread out while over land. Unfortunately, the marsh land of south FL does a terrible job of damaging the entire circulation. It's quite likely that there will still be something of an eye on radar as it hits the gulf coast.
The westernmost bands are starting to feel the affects of the bath water out ahead, and inflow is starting up again out of the north. She will pop right back to Hurricane as the eye exits (should be downgraded shortly).
I just checked the 11 o'clock info and the storm seems to have moved south.
I had looked at a couple satellite images earlier and was sure it was tracking south, but thought that maybe I was just imagining it.
How will this affect the projected path?
From radar, she's halfway across Florida, much faster than I expected. At this rate she'll be out into the Gulf, not much weaker before daylight.