I should probably have wondered more about what you wrote when I first saw it right away. I’m sorry I didn’t even really think about it before.
“Hey, one of the models has Ike headed to Montana! Ya never know! ;-)”
After I ran across this comment a second time, it snapped out to me what the heck you were probably talking about ... (It would not normally surprise me that a model would be out in left field, but this one would have) ... I just went to look, and sure enough:
That track now “to Montana” is not a model. - It is a straight line extrapolation of the past 12 hours (I think) movement. ALL the models have this curling off to the NorthEast.
Yes, it's the extrapolation...go ahead and ruin all the fun! :-)
At the time, one (shallow BAM, I think) was running a sharp dogleg toward Tennessee or something, but I thought Montana was a better claim. :-)