Neil Frank is my favorite hurricane guy. I loved watching him on TV when he was director of NHC.
My local favorite when I lived outside of Mobile was Dr. Bill Williams. He and his meteorology students at USA were usually pretty darn accurate with their landfall and windspeed predictions.
I love him too. Today, in the environment we now have, he is extremely careful how it says what he says. I've watched him so many yrs on local weather...I've learned to read between the lines in what he's saying. Today, he continued to talk about the 'cone of uncertainty.' So I looked at that cone and could see he's saying if Ernesto comes off Cuba as even a system...folks look eastward...