Hurricane Hunter aircraft found an intensifying storm in their latest fix this morning, as Dean continues to move toward the west at about 17 miles per hour. The storm has slowed a bit, but it is still being steered on a generally westerly course along the southern edge of a high pressure.

There is a possibility that this storm could become a category five storm in the next 12 to 24 hours as it makes it way over the central Caribbean Sea, where it has a lot of warm water to tap into. We've had some good news on the track, however, for South Louisiana, as the National Hurricane Center has nudged the track a little farther to the south. Also, the one model that for two days continued to take the storm into the central Gulf and SW Louisiana has moved farther south toward central Texas. This gave the NHC the confidence to move the "cone of error" farther south as well. We'll be back at 7am, a new track doesn't come out until 10am.