I would have just linked this, but I'm not familiar with weather.com's archiving capabilities so I'm just going t quote it all. This must be the most beautifully written hurricane report I've ever read in my entire life. Now I know what it takes to become a Sr. Meteorologist.

Frances continues inexorably toward U. S.
12:03 P.M. ET Wed.,Sep.1,2004
Buzz Bernard, Sr. Meteorologist, The Weather Channel

As autumn draws nigh and we prepare to celebrate the waning days of summer, our thoughts typically are drawn to the pagentry of football and foliage. Pass routes and falling leaves. Yet this year it may be evacuation routes and falling trees. Autumn will not come gently. Frances the Fierce will see to that. Dangerous Hurricane Frances is swirling into the Turks and Caicos islands this afternoon on a relentless course toward the southeast U. S. Frances, a category 4 monster on the Saffir-Simpson Scale, is expected to smash through the southern and central Bahamas tomorrow and into the northern Bahamas tomorrow night. After that, the southeast coast of the U. S. will bob to the top of the target list, but as yet there is no consensus among guidance tools as to where (or when) Frances will thunder ashore. Thus, prudence would dictate residents all along the coast (and even some distance inland) from the Keys to Cape Hatteras make at least preliminary preparations for a strike from a major hurricane. And, unless Frances throws out a sea anchor soon and begins to slow in its forward speed (as most models suggest it will) landfall could come sooner rather than later. Hurricane watches may need to be posted for a portion of the Florida east coast later today or early tomorrow. Best advice: get ready; pay attention. And keep in mind that tropical storm force winds and building surf (especially along the Carolina coast) will precede the approach of the hurricane by quite some time.

Meanwhile, in the eastern Pacific, Hurricane Howard appears to be growing stronger about 500 miles south-southwest of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Howard is expected to move northwestward, however, and remain well off the Mexican coast.

In the western Pacific, Typhoon Songda (145 mph) is sweeping WNW from the northern Mariana Islands into the Philippine Sea. Songda is forecast to churn through the Philippine Sea in the general direction of Okinawa, but wouldn't be a threat to the island for four or five days... if then.
Source: Weather.com 09/01/2004