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George has the right franchise, wrong movie and line

A variation of this movie's most famous line was used a couple of years later in a political campaign when the movie's star embarked on a brief, known-but-mostly-under-the-radar political career. While this movie is part of a franchise concerned with the criminal justice system, this is the only entry with a courtroom scene.

Without even seeing the movie, I'm guessing Gran Torino

No threat to the US, won't become a hurricane. That was fun while nothing happened. Next!

Looking good for the USA

The Tropical Storm Imminently to be Known as Josephine Anyone's guess right now where it goes.

Might as well put all the cones and whatnot in one place instead of a thread for every storm. I will be focusing on Atlantic storms, given that Pacific storms don't really affect GSC participants much. I also want to apologize for focusing in the past on storms that are headed for Florida and then losing interest once I'm out of the cone. I usually expect others to jump in once that's done, but that doesn't seem to happen a lot. So anyway, let us begin with...

And if I go another 100 years without hearing it, it will be too soon (thank you Applebee's)

Honest mistake. Busy day. Murphy's Romance.

Murphy's Law, with what's his name, Jim Rockford. James Garner.

Did they like her? Did they really like her?

Well, that was a big bust. Close as it came to Broward, there was ZERO panic. I should add there was zero hype. A yawner for us so far. Anyone else near the path, please keep your eyes open and be prepared.

Close enough

Sorry, but if this story ended "and that's how he became a Muslim" no one would entertain any possibility it was true. But ok, it wasn't something VPW or LCM made up. I was wrrrrrrr. I was wrrrrrRrrrrRrrRRrRRRR. WordWolf, a hand here?

I apologize for calling it a myth when it was clearly a comedy.

"Funny" that it's projected to hit places that were in the cone when we started keeping track but were OUT of the cone as recently as two days ago.

That's the end of the Skid Row (Downtown) song, and at this point you realize Moranis has the singing chops to pull this off.

I remember this. I think the guy's name was Perseus, and he had a flying horse. I'm not saying this sounds like a myth, but I'm not saying it doesn't. Because it does.

Hello, boys and girls. Today's word is "wobble," as in, the path of a hurricane is not really a straight line, as maps might lead you to believe. If you were to see a real extreme closeup of these storms, you would see that they don't so much move in a straight line as they wobble a little to the east and the west and the north and the south. You see, they don't know they're hurricanes. They are driven by atmospheric pressure and larger wind currents. Ever fly a kite? Notice how when you're bringing it back down to you, it goes back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. It doesn't just return to you the way, say, a fishing line (with no fish) would. Yeah, hurricanes are like those kites. Yeah, the jetstream is driving its overall direction, but it goes back and forth, back and forth. (The jetstream doesn't know it's a jetstream. Shhh. Don't tell it). Anyway, those H markers that you see on the map in that nice simple pattern? Look how far apart they are in time. 12 hours between H's. And in those 12 hours? Back and forth... back and forth. The line in the middle of the cone is approximately the center of where they think the eye of the storm is going to be. But a little wobble west at the right time and my neighborhood is getting pounded. A little wobble east, and my lawn might not need watering on Saturday. So that's today's lesson. There won't be a test.

Is everyone as fascinated by the progression of the various maps as I am?

How about this one:

And a little MORE east. Watch out, Ireland! Just kidding. Our web site had an article today demonstrating that the projected path five days out is usually not horribly accurate but the cone generally is. It was something. But look at how much farther east it is compared to the forecast just early yesterday. Sheesh. Now it's supposed to strengthen into a hurricane.

And east AGAIN. This one is fun. Beware, England!

Now it moved a little to the east.

This thing is going to affect California more than Florida at this rate. Anyway, going straight up Florida would be preferable. Over water gives it more time to strengthen.