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The thought of blogging on Tropical Storm Fay was as far from my mind as praising Supari, until I was reading Mike Coston's Avian Flu Diary blog.  He has been covering Fay and its potential computer-driven trajectories.  In my job as a powerful and influential State government CIO, it is my duty to watch hours and hours and hours of Weather Channel broadcasts until I can expertly predict which outfit Sharon Resultan will wear.  So I pulled myself away from watching Cheryl Lemke (nailed the blazer perfectly), and dutifully pulled up Mike's blog from the weekend, which had computer models showing Fay was headed anywhere from Tallahassee to Ft. Myers to Uzbekestan. 

I noted that the computer model AVNO was the best at predicting the actual trajectory of Fay, followed by a combination of CMC's entry point (Ft. Myers) and BAMD's exit point (Cocoa Beach).  But AVNO nailed it with entry and exit points perfectly -- and I mean perfectly. 

So now, AVNO shows the storm lolligagging (that's a meteriorlogical term, as the President would say) and crossing over (no, not the John Edward crossing over) back to the Gulf coast, and eventually headed for Pensacola.  This would give Fay the opportunity to a) water my lawn dang good without messing it up with tree limbs and such, and b) strengthen into a hurricane, since the northern Gulf waters are quite hot where Fay would go, according to AVNO.

God, where else on the Net are you going to get this kind of in-depth analysis?  Latest computer models at:

http://my.sfwmd.gov/sfwmd/common/images/weather/plots/storm_06.gif

And let's hear it for the fool who went kite surfing on Ft. Lauderdale Beach and got slammed into a) the beach and then b) a building.  There are always people who want to straddle that fine line between adrenaline and a coffin.  I know he was an experienced kite surfer, but you never, NEVER test Mother Nature's patience during such things as tropical storms. 

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/649030.html

http://www.local6.com/weather/17229517/detail.html