It is the season, and there is a hurricane heading for the gulf with another 1-3 in the pipeline from Africa
Master's Wunderblog is the place for news
but the models used for forecasting are on the web.
Forecasts that far in advance are highly uncertain, but current models show Gustav shooting the straits between Cuba and Yucatan into the Gulf as a major hurricane.
Could turn any direction after that, though models are converging on impact more to the northwest side, on monday-ish.
Full set of models is at the Tropical Cyclone Genesis page at FSU.
Play with different models for different storms.
Fascinating, in a morbid sort of way.
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Yeah, the current tracks are no-win - after Haiti, Gustav looks to stay over water and intensify. It then can either go straight on, hitting NOLA as maybe category 4. If it swerves west, Florida, rainsoaked, gets it again. If it goes east it trashes the oil rigs.
But predictive power that far ahead is poor, so maybe something else will happen.