October 20, 2005

  • Headline writers obviously do not pay a lot of attention to what the
    heck is actually happening, else they wouldn't write:  Wilma Weakens Slightly, but Roars Ahead

    Wilma?  Roaring?  Not on its best day.  It's been
    a fascinatingly dithering, indecisive hurricane.  Critter just
    waffles around in the western Caribbean, apparently in no particular
    rush to get wherever it is it's going.  And why everyone's
    convinced it's making its laborious way to Florida, I don't know. 
    Upper level winds, presumably. By the time Wilma finally clears the
    Yucatan peninsula, however, the winds may have switched direction.