@zhena gogolia: That’s what the two meteorologists on the local cable provider’s news cast said at 11 PM. They said they think the National Hurricane Center may likely have left it as a hurricane, based apparently on one reading from one sensing buoy west of Sarasota that had a 55 nautical miles per hour reading, and they NHC wants to leave it as a hurricane through the next update just in case it reorganizes and restrengthens so as not to give people still in the path a false sense of security. We’re dealing with Floriduhans here, so if you tell them that it’s not even really a tropical storm a whole bunch of people will go out fishing in the gulf right away.