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Looks like it might be petering out a bit due to interaction with Cuba. The eye is poorly defined on visible imagery now and the water vapor analysis looks to have drier air in the western & southern quadrants. Down to Cat 3 but could bloom up again over the next 24 hours over the Straits of Florida. Maybe some good news in there? A little?

Looks like Tampa is going to get a whoopin' - probably many of the same areas hit by Charlie a few years ago too. Best of luck to all there.

FWIW I'd much rather deal with a storm like this every few years than MONTHS of cold, dark rotten snow and ice like up north every single year. Yes these are dramatic and horrible but truthfully the winters up north are a lot more destructive, it just happens over a longer period of time and is less dramatic or isolated to single specific events.

I hope there isn't a lot of looting / property crime after this blows through but it IS Florida after all (highest concentration of lowlifes per square mile in the USA aside from Detroit). Stay safe all.