digitaldiscipline ◾ Fearless Freak Forecast

After being surprisingly accurate as far as predicting Ivan's Track, Your Weather Weirdo turns his attention towards new Hurricane Jeanne.

While less interesting in terms of wind speed and attendant carnage (the FFF calls for it to top out around the bottom end of category 3 on the Saffir-Simpson scale, around 120mph before initial US landfall), Jeanne warrants some mindshare because it's going to bounce.

That's right, you heard it here first - Jeanne will, after annoying the living hell out of

angel_renewed by visiting her cruise destinations before she does, nose the Atlantic coast of Florida near where Frances made her slow trudge across the state, but unlike Frances, Jeanne will not make complete landfall, instead track NNE before rebounding NW, and making landfall near the SC/NC border as a Cat 2 event, which, unfortunately for the Carolinas and Virginia, will mean more rain on top of the two storms' worth they've already seen.

Here at GMBA HQ, we're in for, as Shaky (our Agent in Denial) is prone to forecast, "Just a little wind and rain."

So, there's the FFF for Jeanne. Stay tuned for our next installment, since there's a fresh wave wafting westward across the Atlantic basin!