>>> I believe we had a devastating May storm last year too...

yes we did...there was an unnamed and in fact uninvestigated may storm which devastated haiti, killing at least 3,000. if you feel like it, you may want to go back into the 2004 archives, towards the end of May, and see what we all had to say about it...

i really believe the nhc dropped the ball on that storm, as it was clearly AT LEAST a tropical depression, if not alex...

it will be interesting to see if your weakening hypothesis holds up, as i'm of the mind that this might achieve hurricane status at the next update...but we shall see...either way, she's still holding strong at 60+ winds, so she's clearly not a hurricane yet...

and it's el salvador..san salvador is the capital

but nice analysis keith