Don't like that idea of yours for recurving storms up the W coast of Fla. Those are the storms that have the greatest potential for disaster in the Tampa/St Pete area and we have been darn lucky for the past 50 years or so (since Donna). Charley and Wilma both came from the back side and we DON"T need a repeat of either of those. Heck, my parents just got their house rebuilt about 12 months ago after Charley tore it all up......let's just hope you are wrong there, although it is just a matter of time for TB/StP.

It's a bit late for my 2 cents, but let me go on the high side...lots of energy out there and VERY hot already with little cloud cover, so we may get high SSTs this summer.....19 - 8 - 4
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