[rwfromkansas]

It is basically hovering over a spot of some of the warmest water....no doubt this sucker is going to strenthen even more. It may drop a bit as it interacts more with the Yuc., but it is far enough to the north it should not be affected hardly at all from that, perhaps a SLIGHT weakening. Now, if it decides to start heading southwest and stall in the BOC and interact with lots of land masses before heading north to Texas, which the latest AVN shows, then it may start some bigtime weakening before strenghtening again to probably a Cat 3 before hitting Texas.

[rwfromkansas]

or La.