Teal61, sorry, that is kind of important...if it gets to tropical storm strength by Saturday night, he is thinking hurricane threat on the Tejas coast Monday & Tuesday, and a strong one at that.

Erin & Opal, welcome aboard.

And it's 99"L" (as in atLantic) not I. (unless that was a small a lower case l not an uppercase I. They look the same

so we try to capitalize them).

That 5:30 TWO certainly leaves the door open for development of both systems. My bet is on the GOM to definitely get a name, whether it's Bonnie or Alex is the question of the hour.