Your opinion...AT THIS POINT

[Guest]

I sure aint boarding up until it comes in between the bahama islands. Ive seen too many bad calls.

[Dmetal81]

Brevard County

[Pebbles]

Between Miami and the Cape

[x-y-no]

With the NE ridge still holding strong Frances will not make that forecasted NW turn, she will continue to track W to a slight N of W track and at present speed landfall will be between W Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale around 12pm Friday as a CAT 5.

I did have Frances making landfall around Miami but for that to happen she will need to move due west for at least 4 to 6 hrs over the next 24 hours.

As far as the GOM I'm looking at MS for 2nd landfall as a strong Cat 3 or weak Cat 4.

Not sure why you say that. The extrapolation of her last 12 hours course is into the upper Keys.

[AL Chili Pepper]

I've been saying Melbourne/Cocoa Beach/Merritt Island area for over 2 days now. I'll hold my cards for now, but might start thinking further south if she doesn't start gaining some latitude.

[CFL]

West Palm Beach

[Novacane]

Melbourne....no, wait! Savannah....no, Wilmington....no, Charleston!....no, Miami....no, the Keys!

I'll stick with Melbourne and pray it miraculously misses everyone.

[GalvestonDuck]

Fort Pierce/Port St. Lucie area

[SCHawkFan]

GA/FL border.

[golter]

[quote="CaptinCrunch"]With the NE ridge still holding strong Frances will not make that forecasted NW turn, she will continue to track W to a slight N of W track and at present speed landfall will be between W Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale around 12pm Friday as a CAT 5.

Its been a pure WNW (292) for 6 hours now. Your claiming 275. Thats roughly 200 miles south of current track in 36 hours.

[rtd2]

qoute "Its been a pure WNW (292) for 6 hours now"






WHAT? guess I shouldnt read those votex messages cause I'm confused!

[4cast]

JUPITER/STUART

[Hou~TX~Mama]

I say... a direct hit to Boca Raton, cross into the Gulf, another hit on Pensacola.

[skysummit]

While it's looking like Miami then the GOMEX to me, I'm going to have confidence in the pros and say near Jacksonville.

[Canelaw99]

I say it's going to be a Dade/Broward County storm...I've said that since day 1...that's my story and I'm stickin' to it

[AlabamaDave]

I'm going to call it as Ft. Lauderdale - West Palm Beach. Crossing into the Gulf, with a second landfall in the Western Florida Panhandle.

This storm is so low in latitude. It will have to turn very sharply to make landfall anywhere above Cape Canaveral.

This is a nightmare scenario. A Cat-4 plowing into densely populated Broward and Palm Beach Counties and crossing Florida to potentially impact the same areas that were devastated by Charley. It is hard to believe that this is really happening.

[Patrick99]

I say it's going to be a Dade/Broward County storm...I've said that since day 1...that's my story and I'm stickin' to it

I have been wavering back and forth on this. On some loops it looks like it will smack us, on some loops it looks like it won't. I guess I don't have much of a clue at this time. To me, I don't see what's going to turn it that far north, but maybe I'm missing something. It seems to me that whatever "weakness" was there has been filled.

[NFLnut]

Melbourne....no, wait! Savannah....no, Wilmington....no, Charleston!....no, Miami....no, the Keys!

I'll stick with Melbourne and pray it miraculously misses everyone.

If it hits Melbourne and goes through Orlando as the NHC is sticking with for now, it won't 'miss everyone!' The population through that track is immense and it is an area which just got hit HARD by Charley. At least Miami/Ft Lauderdale doesn't have tens of thousands of heavily damaged homes already.

[wsquared77]

WPB

[Josephine96]

Melbourne