Place your bets!!!

#1 Postby **hial2** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 7:01 pm

Anyone interested in writing down IN THIS thread your projection SET IN STONE of where Ivan is going to end up, and what lands will he touch please do so now so in a week or so we will have someone with bragging rights until the next storm and be crowned the King of Winds.
Rememeber, once it's down, it's the final prediction.. Im tired of the flipflops..let' see who the MAN (or WOMAN) is

HIAL2 prediction: after crossing the isles, wnw movement across Jamaica and Cuba crossing the straights of Fla heading north into Alabama

NJCane · #2 Postby **NJCane** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 7:03 pm

Through the islands then the Yucatan Channel or just over the west end of Cuba, then north into the LA/TX border

#3 Postby **charleston_hugo_veteran** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 7:04 pm

Anonymous · #4 Postby **Anonymous** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 7:04 pm

Anywhere from Texas to Alabama. In other words, its the Western Gulf's turn.

opera ghost · #5 Postby **opera ghost** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 7:04 pm

Houston Texas baby.

I'm driving to San Antonio to pick up a dresser and it would be utterly ironic if I left on Friday to pick up my furniture... and come back to find my apartment gone!

((This is OperaGhost playing darts again. Ya know- like my dart throw at Miami last week? No reasoning, no hunches- just a dart throw- please don't take my forcast into consideration for anything other than amusement value))

#6 Postby **skysummit** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 7:05 pm

This is what I think....He will continue on his W - WNW path across the Leewards, then turn on more of a NW track across the Central to Eastern tip of Cuba....skirt Key West then continue Northwest to North with a landfall around Pensacola as a CAT 3, winds of 125 mph.

greeng13 · #7 Postby **greeng13** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 7:07 pm

s.c. several storms have passed this way so far: charley (after landfall), bonnie (after landfall), gaston, and now frances (after landfall)...i think charleston is due (i hate to say it---just a gut feeling--and hopefully i will be proven wrong!!!!)

Geoff Stormcloud · #8 Postby **Geoff Stormcloud** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 7:10 pm

Ocean springs , ms

~SirCane · #9 Postby **~SirCane** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 7:10 pm

It will be kinda like Georges in 1998. Moves near the FL Keys then enters the Gulf and hits somewhere beween New Orleans and Destin, FL as a CAT3.

freeport_texas2005 · #10 Postby **freeport_texas2005** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 7:19 pm

western gulf...texas/la coast

Yankeegirl · #11 Postby **Yankeegirl** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 7:21 pm

Houston Texas.... We need the rain!! But only as a cat. 1... lol...

#12 Postby **Ground_Zero_92** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 7:21 pm

Anywhere from Florida Keys to Miami as a Cat 1.

#13 Postby **BayouVenteux** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 7:24 pm

Oh heck, I'll take a stab at Ivan, in the hope that he doesn't take one at me. At this point, I'm willing to call it as coming into the Gulf of Mexico with an eventual landfall on the north central Gulf coast in the area east of 90W, and west of 85W...favoring the NW Florida panhandle. Yes, I know that's probably too much geography to qualify for a chance to wear the crown of the king of winds, but at this point, that's a Ms. Cleo sized stretch anyway.

MBryant · #14 Postby **MBryant** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 7:25 pm

I'll go way out on a limb and predict that it is too far south to be picked up by any trough and proceeds more westerly inti Nicaragua

recmod · #15 Postby **recmod** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 7:26 pm

WNW through the Caribbean...south of Hispaniola...to very near Jamaica. Then, a gradual turn to the NW over the west tip of Cuba into the Gulf. A continued N...then NNE turn into the Big Bend area of Florida

--Lou

GTStorm · #16 Postby **GTStorm** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 7:32 pm

LA / MS Border. Just a guess, thinking that models will trend west of where they are now. But ya never know.....

AL Chili Pepper · #17 Postby **AL Chili Pepper** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 7:34 pm

Looks like it may be taking a more southerly jaunt, but I'll go with Beaumont, TX to New Orleans...somewhere in the middle....OK, Lafayette, LA. $5 chip's on the table.

#18 Postby **BayouVenteux** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 7:35 pm

Houstoner wrote:Anywhere from Texas to Alabama. In other words, its the Western Gulf's turn.

Um, you wouldn't mind if Louisiana moves to the back of the queue, would you? :wink:

Biloxi · #19 Postby **Biloxi** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 7:38 pm

South of Hispaniola missing all major land masses before entering the
gulf just nnw of cuba. Then a path more nw to n stricking middle gulf coast between LA and Ms. If this happens we could see a storm stonger than David ( 79) and Gilbert. Project to maintain cat 3 status all through the Caribbean and then possibility for major intensification will exist once in the Gulf. Has the potential to be the worst storm to hit the coast since Camille.

krisj · #20 Postby **krisj** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 7:39 pm

Miami. THis is based on absolutely no scientific data what so ever.
I hope I am wrong though. Florida needs a break big time.

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