Waiting for doom to arrive. A real disaster swirling out in the Atlantic, Hurricane Dorian is now a Category 5 hurricane with winds in excess of 185 miles-per-hour. This is now a true oh-shit moment. I can only truly pray that the projected forecast course holds, because if it doesn’t Dorian could hit Florida and tear hell out of everything, far more than a pass by. And the trend since late yesterday isn’t good. That track keeps slowly, slowly inching back west and towards landfall.

This capture, taken earlier this morning, clearly shows the possible cone outline over every city in Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina and Virginia that Dorian is a danger too. Even though there is a single line for the forecast path, that area around the path means that Dorian could go anywhere within the cone, including further west and over land. And even if it doesn’t that’s still a good approximation of cities and areas on the coast that will still be damaged, perhaps not as catastrophically, but damaged pretty badly none-the-less.

The oceans now have three new areas to investigate, and all of them show a greater than zero chance of forming into a storm or new hurricane. The one off of Africa is worrisome.

And with apologies to Samuel Johnson, who is alleged to have said:

“Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”