Nice online historical tracking map

[KeyLargoDave]

The Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel site has this great tool:

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/custom ... .htmlstory

It lets you choose any year from 1900 to today and see the animated track of any storm. After you display a storm's track, you can use the left and right arrow keys to step through each location fix. It shows the lat/long and windspeed at each point.

I used this site to see just how scary multiple-strike years can be. Check out 1935, when the tracks of storms 2, 3, and 6 form a little triangle around the upper Keys, and one of those was about the most powerful hurricane to hit the US.

Look at 1960 -- Donna. Very similar to Frances, although not its ultimate destination, I hope. When Donna was about three days out from hitting the Middle Keys, it was at 22 N 70.5 W, about 90 miles south of where Frances is forecast to be next Thursday, and then went northwest until landfall, seeming to escape the ridge or be deflected by a trough.

Dave

[Aquawind]

Pretty cool..1935 was an interesting year..wow your area got blasted..The storm coming from Bermuda had a pretty crazy path..

[KeyLargoDave]

Yeah, that's a weird one, goes south and west from Bermuda and does curlicues.

[Aquawind]

Wow.. Quiet but lotsa landfalls!..Nothing east of the islands.. Could be some lack of data of course..

http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/atl ... index.html