Let's worry a LOT about what this storm might do. It has more of a chance of being a cat 5 than it does of being nothing. It's august, and when the NHC is forecasting a category 3, it's only because they don't understand the forces at play that bring it to a cat 4 or cat 5. it is certainly NOT too early to begin wondering if it will affect the GOM or not. IT WILL....

I have only seen a few hurricanes that headed due west...or wnw...until they hit land. Gilbert was the most notable in my mind. MOST will curve....
never mind that the current models are projecting past 5 days....NO ONE can predict what might happen except this one thing....

we will have a cat 3-4-5 storm in the western Caribbean in August....absolutely NO chance of not amounting to anything....