Zoom in on Goes 12 IR to see if the eyewall crosses that tip

[Steve]

http://weather.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/goeseasthurrir.html

Dennis didn't want to hit Jamaica and apparently doesn't want to hit Cuba yet either. It's interesting how the spinning cores just don't like land and it's cool to be able to watch them interact with the land as well. Tough call, but based on the last frame, it looks like it wants to parallel that part of the coast and maybe strike a little further down the line.

/sorry for making a new topic

Steve

[LilNoles2005]

looks like the northern eyewall is making landfall...

[Normandy]

Yep its gonna cross the very extreme western tip.

[NC George]

Another one of my personal hurricane theories: Hurricanes don't like to make landfall except at close to 90 degree angles to the coast. If it is running at a small angle, it will skip along the coast until it finds a cuspate peninsula to hit. This is the reason the Capes of NC (cuspate peninsulas) get hit so often. This is why NOLA is so hard to hit (they skip off to the left or right depending on the direction of travel of the hurricane.) This is why the Jacksonville and GA coast are so infrequently hit.