The water vapor loop offers a lot of questions and not a lot of answers.

http://weather.unisys.com/satellite/sat_wv_east_loop-12.html

Gustav is really close to 95 all things considered and the area between them is quite narrow.

And the high pressure that is building in is moving to the SW and it makes me curious as to how
Gustav is going to move west? I'm even wondering if it is possible that he slows down and loops a little bit in place
until the steering currents settle down.

Have any models shown anything like that? I don't believe so but from watching the WV loop and the storm itself
I am wondering.

See clearer on the floater the effect of the high feeding in on it's left side.

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/flt/t1/loop-wv.html