A Shield Against Hurricane Florence

[Inquisitive Raven]

Is it just me or does that cone of uncertainty look like it's straddling the Appalachians? I would have expected it to be mostly if not entirely east of the mountains.

In August, I spent five days of a week-long Hawaiian cruise avoiding Hurricane Lane which was also a slow moving storm, slower than Florence is currently if I got the metric-Imperial conversion correct. That storm dumped over a foot of water on the Big Island in under twenty-four hours, so there's your benchmark.