Eastern US sat view gives some perspective on the size of Irene and area's sizes that are north... http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/eaus/vis-l.jpg http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/eaus/vis-l.jpg Forcast discussion... http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCDAT4+shtml/251455.shtml GFS model...96 hours http://moe.met.fsu.edu/cgi-bin/gfstc2.cgi?time=2011082506&field=Sea+Level+Pressure&hour=096hr ECMWF model...96 hours http://moe.met.fsu.edu/cgi-bin/ecmwf-opertc2.cgi?time=2011082500&field=Sea+Level+Pressure&hour=096hr