What's in a (hurricane) name? In my mind, 'Barry' conjures up visions of the retired major league baseball star who admitted to taking steroids that enhanced his home run hitting ability, plus a very famous politician who once sat in the Oval Office.

Jim Stone, Freelance Journalist
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I AM CALLING IT: "BARRY" is a man made storm

Barry started as a low pressure region OVER LAND, that moved over the water, parked itself in one spot for an entire week, then FINALLY got a rotation going, and is simply not moving.

That is the first time that has ever happened - where something that started over land went out into the caribbean and started a tropical storm type rotation. How long it lasted and stayed stationary is also HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS. And what is this thing going to do? It is going to rip right through the heartland, without much wind, while it drops catastrophic rains on an already rain wrecked region. I don't buy that, someone is causing this.

Barry is now strong enough to call a tropical storm. I have not heard word of this yet, but my own checking on this confirms it is there, or so close to being there it might as well be called. It will not have problematic winds, the rain is going to be the issue with this one.