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It just sickens me to see Florida getting pounded yet again.

God me too. This just makes me sick!!!

What do you think...will it turn north and skirt the Florida coast? Will she continue to strengthen or is there a chance of westerlies tearing her apart?

[Dog Gone]

I think it's a slam dunk that Jeanne hits Florida. There is no chance at all of a miss at this point. She's moving too fast and too west to make a sudden turn at this point.

She'll begin to turn northwest and then north after landfall, and there's a slight chance that she could briefly enter the Gulf near Tallahassee before moving toward the Carolinas (at least that is what the Canadian model is showing), but the other models all show Jeanne staying onshore Florida before heading north.

I think Jeanne is strengthening right now. She'll make landfall as at least a strong Category 2 storm, and potentially as a 4. Very dangerous storm.