Igor.

Avast all ye bilge rats. Can you not see the high clouds from Igor to our southeast?

Bermuda stands to get whacked. Some links to follow the action...

http://flhurricane.com/imageanimator.php?90

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/hurricanetrack-com

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=41049

150mph winds!! Baro- 928.6!! Holy crap!! This thing is going annular..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annular_hurricane

"An annular hurricane or truck tire pattern hurricane^[1] is a tropical cyclone in the Atlantic or Eastern Pacific Oceans that features a large, symmetric eye surrounded by a thick ring of intense convection. This type of storm is not prone to the fluctuations in intensity associated with eyewall replacement cycles, unlike typical intense tropical cyclones. Annular hurricanes also tend to persist, even when encountering environmental conditions which easily dissipate most other hurricanes. Forecasters have difficulty predicting the behavior of annular hurricanes; they are a recently recognized phenomenon, and as such, little is known about their tendencies. Because of this, they can be more dangerous than typical hurricanes".

Could be a Cat 5 by 11pm. Incredible presentation...

http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~gadomski/SAT_ATL/atlanim8ir.html

nice "stadium effect"...

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/flt/t1/flash-vis.html (time sensitive)

None of the models, except the euro, handled the fact that the storm would intensify so rapidly. With a strong storm, you have very strong out flow aloft, in essence creating a stronger ridge(high pressure). Igor will travel further west than modeled as it traverses along the southern periphery of the high pressure ridge which it is helping to build.

The models all seem to show a fish spinner for the most part, unless you live on Bermuda, which could get walloped.

BTW. That would be Julia to its east which is still a depression off the CV Islands.

Euro was a good model for Earl. Let's see how it handles Igor. Here it is at 144 hours...

Creedon beat you to it about 3 days ago on my Facebook page. And it's Eegor.

I don't remember him having four cats.