A Tropical Storm, no more...

I'd like to congratulate our friend Omar, who has now officially graduated from a tropical storm to a category 1 hurricane. He should be making his way to becoming a category 2, tomorrow at around 11PM, approximately 180 miles off the coast of SXM. The worst of it should probably be Thursday morning, when it looks like the center may come within 50 or 60 miles of the island, before making its way back into the ocean Thursday evening. The course has continually been shifting South though (closer to SXM), and the point at which it become a category 2 keeps shifting south as well, so who knows what it will do by the time it gets here.