Fay is the hurricane who can not be predicted.  Hooray for us!

Fay continues to zig zag her way across the state of Florida.  She has already made landfall twice and is now predicted to finish her first full crossing of the peninsula to end up out in the Atlantic again.  The current projection (which changes hourly, often to an opposite extreme) shows Fay heading out into the ocean, then zagging back into Florida, practically perpendicular to its previous track, headed horizontally across
Florida.  Instead of arriving here in Gainesville Wednesday morning, as previously predicted, it should now inch its way towards us, with the center of rotation reaching I75 late THURSDAY afternoon.

Additionally, Fay has gotten STRONGER while rotating over land, the opposite of what you would expect.  Meteorologists on the Weather Channel, CNN, and the local NBC news channel have repeatedly shrugged their shoulders over this.  One woman was practically whining that this “defied everything they teach you in weather school.”  However, my roommate assured me that this is a commonly accepted concept that Lake Okeechobee is such a large, warm body of water that any hurricane that stops to visit will leave full of energy and warm water.

So, to sum up, there is a hurricane out there that is completely unpredictable and defying expectations and (in the opinion of some) common practice for storms.  It may or may not hit us.  The good news is, we have a well stocked hurricane kit and a weather radio that sets off an alarm when any severe weather warning is issued for our county.  The bad news is, we have no idea if we have to go to school for the rest of the week.