Noel Close to Being a Hurricane?

Maybe for just for a few hours or twelve til the front moves in ...

For now... storm growing on the south and west...

Supposedly drifting north at 3...

That front is there, it will catch it eventually but until it does...

This storm is intensifying ... center is visible on various imagery

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/flt/t1/loop-rb.html

look at that..

Here, we are up... older son came home with bags of candy (cool, expensive, interesting stuff... nice neighborhood lol and after doing Lincoln Road (which was packed... they are expecting 40,000 people) and ending up at the Beach watching the waves with his friends (pier closed off, police policing but letting kids sit and watch the waves from various vantage points).. wild waves, wild wind here off and on gusting and bands of showers slamming rain against the jalousies....and then it's quiet until it starts again..

Hurricane Watch in Miami... watching Tropical Storm Noel grow and race off to the north at a breakneck 3 miles per hour lol.

Check out that Nogaps...

Pressure in Miami currently 29.76



How close can Noel come before catching the front...