Phil -- it definitely could have a similar effect, depending on how long it stays there. That's a very mountainous island and with poor living conditions across most of it, rainfall and mudslides could be torrential. Hopefully it doesn't stick around long enough to pose such a problem, but unless the pattern shifts, it very well might stick.

By downplaying the potential development of 92L, though, I don't mean to downplay its impacts, which can be (and likely are) very real to those in Jamaica and on Hispaniola. Whatever is there is not as well organized as last year's May event, but we've seen how dying tropical cyclones can dump massive amounts of rainfall in the S.E. US -- doesn't necessarily have to be organized to rain.