may be my eyes, but franklin appears to be on the move (faster than this morning) i would say north, maybe just slightly east of north, (at 6-10kts) but appears to be strengthing too. The dust storm can be seen pretty good on GOES 12 8km from colostate.edu. noticed at the bottom of dust system, there is a pretty good tropical wave nearing the islands. might be too close to south america, but may make into carribean, will have to wait and see. Wonder what the NASA guys are going to do this weekend. Sat at noon is when the next countdown is suspose to begin for tuesday launch. Atlantis was moved this morning to prepare for vehicle assembly.

Will franklin catch the weakness or will he miss it? right now it looks very close i think.