Hurricane Irene

I've been watching Irene closely...  She showed up on the GFS so far back that I thought there was no way this imaginary storm would happen.  I tend not to believe the GFS at hour 380 simply because it always seems like they throw some doom there at the end just for fun.  :)

Anyway, now Irene looks like she's going to be a real threat to the US coast and probably have some affect from Florida to Maine!

School ruined a possible chase of the tornado producing outer bands of the storm, but the track keeps pushing eastward, and making the storm too far away to reach and make it back to work on Monday.

It is all good though.  I'm not sure I would want to tangle with a major hurricane. 

Anyway, here is the latest spaghetti model for Irene.  Notice the eastward trend.  There is still a chance, IMO, that she'll go to the fishys, but we'll see.

And here is where the GFS has the storm impacting the Outer Banks of NC.

And eventually, it shows Irene still impacting the coast, even NYC and Boston.

More details as the storm progresses!