[bwteim]

"Last nite, Joe Bastardi on Fox said that we may have to deal w/Ernesto into next week as it skirts up the east coast. Looks like that's right."

JB has detractors and praisers - I'm neutral on him, how's that for waffling?

This is what I took away from what I heard him say last night on Fox: there was a cone, it basically covered the state of Florida, and it could go west or all the way right or east.

And, FWIW, the operative word, if that is a quote from Joe B, is "may".

[standingfirm]

I had no idea there were such strong feelings out there about Joe Bastardi! Holy cow.

[shield]

I've been watching little ole' Joe for several yrs. In the beginning, I thought he was the best around. After a number of major predictions proved to be absolutely wrong...I found him to be more like a bad fortune teller...lots of stoking it up...

Last yr with Rita he said Galveston would be destroyed. And that's just one of them...there are many more.

[metmom]

Whew, finally caught up with you.

I didn't have any luck on the hurricane thingie until I have the brainstorm to google *Terrapin Associates*.

Here is the post of yours from the other thread for any newcomers and anyone else interested in a cool hurricane tracking map.

For others interested, the Home page is

Hurricane & Storm Tracking for the Atlantic & Pacific Oceans http://hurricane.terrapin.com/

then, from that page, the loop link to the neat archive is in the bar on upper left:

Storm Archive: Java™ Animated Plots and ASCII Data files, 1886 - 2005

http://weather.terrapin.com/hurricane/index.jsp

It has current data on Ernesto from home page as well:

http://hurricane.terrapin.com/ATL-05A/