I think Big Media and leftist freaks dishonestly ran with the eastern-most prediction model(s) as long as they could to influence/scare the conventioners as much as possible, and are now quietly celebrating their 25%+ reduction in time.
Naw, that was NOAA's doing. I live in Fort Myers FL, and for a while, it was "headed" for us, but I KNEW it would go out west, even though NOAA had it headed straight for me. Why? Because the two most reliable models had it headed out into the gulf, while the other few had it going east. NOAA averages out all the models to get the projected path. What they should do is weight the average more strongly in favor of the models which have shown themselves to be more historically accurate.