Ivan 5pm projection - tracking west, heading for the Panhandle now...

[SidDithers]

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ftp/graphics/AT09/refresh/AL0904W5+GIF/092038W5.gif

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[istruthfull]

1. would be nice

That would be nice. I'll settle for 100 mile hour winds at 2 PM Monday.

[Dudley_DUright]

2. Looks like it may be time to leave Pensacola

and head back home to Daytona. I wish it would just take a large right turn and head into the Atlantic, so that nobody in FL gets hit.

[TX-RAT]

3. We vacation in Destin every year.

It can't take another hit.

[whistle]

4. That is very similar to the path taken by Charley...

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It's still a big "if" five days from now. Anything is possible and Ivan is a category 5 with winds over 160mph and much bigger than Charley with a very concentrated eye of only 2-3 miles across. This is very scary.

[DemoTex]

5. Looks like some early "Charley" plots.

This track (which will probably change) would put landfall near where Frances hit the panhandle, St. Georges Island and Apalachicola.

[yellowcanine]

6. I would be getting a teeny bit nervous if I lived in Alabama.

Still too far out to tell though so maybe the whole SE should be on alert.