It is still quite large. We will have hurricane-force and tropical storm-force winds covering a large area.
But there is still room for loops and wobbles. It's really too early to say for sure where it'll go.
We have seen a marked increase in the number of Atlantic hurricanes, starting in 1995. This year, things have come together just right, with warm sea surface temperatures and favorable upper-level winds.
Should we get another out-of-season storm, we will use the 2006 named list.
Our forecast will take the storm near or just east of the Bahamas and possibly toward the Carolinas.
It was incredibly out of the ordinary. This season was such an extreme event that it's a little difficult to believe it could repeat itself on a regular basis. But it's too early to tell what the next season will bring.
The forecast track is pointing towards North Carolina, but South Carolina is not out of the woods yet.
With that kind of range of possibilities, we're not going to try to pin down anything about where it's going.
It just sort of weakened and fizzled out,
Hopefully it will cause less damage because it was quick, because the strongest winds didn't last as long.
