[vallismortis]

That won't fix the problem. The NHC uses an ocean model, but the transition across Florida requires the application of a hybrid land/water model, which results in a large divergence when the results of the different models are combined. Fortunately, someone from Mississippi State University developed such a model in 2004. It successfully predicted the exact path of Hurricane Katrina over a week in advance of landfall. That weather model is used for XM Sattelite Weather and the Gulf Coast Hurricane Index, but the NHC still hasn't adopted it after 15 years.