Fay, second storm keep forecasters watching

While Fay spins along the Florida coast Wednesday as a tropical storm or a hurricane, forecasters will also be keeping an eye on a storm wave in the open Atlantic that could become the next Cape Verde hurricane. It too is moving toward the Southeast.

The consensus among National Hurricane Center and private forecasters today is that Fay will move back into Florida or Georgia as a hurricane on Thursday, said meteorologist Brian Wimer of AccuWeather.com. But the storm continued to puzzle the computer models, and its forecast track spanned from much of Florida to south of Charleston.

"It's a distinct possibility" the storm could edge up the coast gathering strength before making landfall in South Carolina on Friday, Wimer said.

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