[Orlando]

Here’s the latest computer models.
keeps changing alot.

http://www.boatus.com/HURRICANES/hurricane_spaghetti.asp

[mcshot]

Goodness, extending the “GFDL” line would impact near NOLA and perhaps answer the question of developing below sea level; and trying to alter Ma Nature.
I’m safely up north but follow these threads closely as have family and, of course, FReepers in affected areas.
mc

[dirtboy]

Dean's pulling in some drier air from the north - you can see a dry slot spiralling into the center in the current sat photos. This is the same Saharan dry air that inhibited hurricanes last year in the Atlantic.

However, Dean will soon be west of that dry air. And the heat potential in the central and western Caribbean is similar to that in 2005. So Dean has a very good chance to become a Cat 5 unless it hits Jamaica or Cuba directly.