This first system is liable to move ENE or NE into the FL Panhandle. We probably got .02" of rain out of it yesterday despite the heavy rainfall in TX and Western LA - it just fell apart. Of more concern to me is the potential setup of a ridge to the East and West of the Central Gulf Coast. Bastardi noted on his T.U. this morning that there is liable to be a fairly substantial piling up of moisture somewhere around the Yucatan Peninsula later this week due to an incredibly strong high (30.5) setting up off the mid-Atlantic Coast. This would mean a few days of strong SE/ESE/E winds across FL and into the Gulf. He made the suggestion that possibly the tropical wave moving into the Carribean (if anything) may be the catalyst to spark some development - if anything actually does want to develop.

Steve