Hurricane warnings posted for eastern Caribbean; South Florida preparing
Source: Sun Sentinel
South Florida continues to monitor powerful Hurricane Irma, soon to become a Category 4, as warnings were posted Monday morning for the eastern Caribbean islands.
Whether the storm will impact South Florida remains unknown, but several forecast models are predicting a northern turn late in the week.
"There is an increasing chance of seeing some impacts from Irma in the Florida Peninsula and the Florida Keys later this week and this weekend," forecasater Dan Brown of the National Hurricane Center said in an 11 a.m. advisory. Still, it is too early to determine what direct impacts the storm might have on the region, it added.
Hurricane warnings are now in effect for a long list of islands, including the islands of Antigua, Barbuda, Anguilla, Montserrat, St. Kitts, St. Martin and Nevis.
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Bottled water flying out the door in S. FL - don't wait to stock up
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Latest spaghetti models...
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Continue to watch it. You can't go by one model run as the solution. 
Hurricanes can take very erratic paths. The first hurricane I remember living through was Hurricane Donna in 1960. Her path was very contorted:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Donna
Donna went in at Marathon, traveled along the west coast of Florida, turned inland north of Fort Myers, passed over Bartow where I lived, exited at Daytona Beach, made landfall at Wilmington NC, exited in Virgina, then hit land yet again in Westhampton, NY, crossed Long Island and finally went across New England.
I was eight years old at the time. My three sisters and I were home alone with my Dad - Mom was in Alabama with her mother who was dying. As the first eye wall passed our house began leaking and my Dad was worried that some of the windows might blow in. He went out to the detached garage to get boards just in case. I remember him telling my oldest sister, "If I don't come back, DO NOT come after me! Stay inside, crawl into the bathtub or a closet and keep your sisters safe." Fortunately Dad came back in safe and we didn't lose any windows, but that house leaked like a sieve. We didn't have power for weeks so we didn't hear about the extensive damage until much later.
(my 47-year long and counting hobby...lol) and am following the play by plays by mets and forecasters. The 12Z Euro model is running right now and is so far is similar to the 12Z GFS model - with Irma running it into South Florida.
However later today and tonight when the 18Z & 0Z models run, that could all change. 
