>Claudette named and ready to leave the playing field

Tropical Storm Claudette is born as predicted and ready to leave the playing field as it crosses over the Fla Panhandle tonight as a flood productor and less a wind producer..

As for Ana, like I keep preacher, this system is likely a depression now, it’s weak, and almost gonna “looking” but that system will refire once it gets the smallest of windows of oppertunity and the past few days to me is an indicator that this thing will fight anything to stay alive… It’s going into the Caribbean island and will be nomore than a tropical breeze and shower producer as these islands out there in the deep tropics are familiar with frequent thunderstorms that bend those palm trees and wet the greens, this will have nothing more than that effect. However it’s further down the road and a head for thewarmer-than-normal Gulf that we need to worry about… Stay tuned to this one.

As for Bill. Bill is a hurricane now in my opinion as I look at sat presentation as the entire sturcture is more hurricane than tropical storm now with an eye and eye wall forming and the large area spreading well out from this systems obvious convective field is now getting sucked in by a deepening storm system. The troughing over to Ohio Valley and surrounding weather pattern movement will be a KEY to what happens in the future and possible land interaction in the next 7 days. Whether it make a US Northeast coast landfall or not. Stay tuned as I hope to bring a detailed OVERALL picture and my forecast.

Thanks for reading.
-Mark