When you said you would pass on any donations above the server replacement, that sealed it for me. I just donated what I could. It looks to me like a professionally run website, and I can support that.

Anyway, back to Ivan. I see, (through sheer luck, I suspect), Ivan did go West of Grand Caymen as I suspected. However, my nerves are not being settled by the NHC track.

It looks to me that the strong West flow the entire area has been having is now reversing. Is not the West GOM now starting to cloud up and filter East a bit? The Atlantic ridge hauling Eastward?

It looks currently to me a strong Easterly flow above Ivan. Which I guess follows earlier discussions about Ivan slow looping into the GOM and then drifting into Tampa - Big Bend area.

Where I get lost is by the time Ivan gets in the GOM, the Easterly currents may be doing other things. I can't "see" that far ahead, but would like to hear from those who feel they can.