Trackin' Florence

People are asking if those of us here in Atlanta are going to be safe from Hurricane Florence's impending landfall, and the answer, fortunately, is yes.

There was some initial uncertainty about exactly where the storm was going to hit the coast, but almost all estimates had it landing somewhere in either North or South Carolina.  While that sucks for Carolinians, it never put Atlanta in the line of danger.  While the Carolina coast may get up to 40 inches of rain, current forecasts are now saying Atlanta will get less than a half-inch of rain, probably arriving sometime Sunday evening.  Wind is not expected to me much of a factor here, either, although I'm still glad I had those trees taken down.

After settling for a bit over Clemson, the storm is now expected to then turn north and travel up to somewhere around Syracuse, New York.

Hurricane prediction is big business for weatherpersons and newscasters though, and no one gets more excited when a hurricane is about to make landfall than television meteorologists.