A slight shift to the left of this storm would bring big changes. We all need to keep an eye on this system. |
It may well be in our own back yard by the end of the week. |
Keep tuned to the forecast, because it's moving hardly at all, it is forecast to drift to the north and northwest. It may well be in our own back yard by the end of the week. |
The hope would be that the storm would actually move over land a little quicker because it would prevent it from sitting over the warm Atlantic ocean waters -- these waters 85, 90 degrees -- and possibly gaining strength. |
We're on the weaker, west side of the storm, Ophelia is not going to be a Katrina, even if it turns into a hurricane, and none of the forecast models bring the center directly to Jacksonville. |