If you were worried about being swept out to sea during your Outer Banks beach three-day weekend, it seems that for the time being, you’re safe. Hurricane Frances seems to be dead-set on striking between Miami and Cape Canaveral. Forecast models differ, but Capital Weather seems to think that data for one model that takes the storm up into the Carolinas is flawed. So unless you’re going to Fort Lauderdale this weekend, things should be…

After predictions that both T.S. Bonnie and Hurricane Charley would both dump buckets of precip on the city and therefore ruin everyone’s weekend, the remnants of both storms bypassed the area. Some of Charley’s outer bands clipped the city, but for the most part, the weekend was dry and cool. While it is hard to image what damage a full force Charley-like storm could do if it had a direct hit on Washington, there are…