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Charley, not surprisingly, went wide right Saturday, sparing us everything but some showers. He also was not nearly what he was when he hit southwest Florida on Friday, so areas of the Carolinas and the Tidewater of Virginia were spared any further major damage.

There's much more to say about Charley and the lessons to be learned from it, but I'll save that for early in the week.

Meanwhile, Tropical Storms Danielle and Earl have developed in the open Atlantic. Danielle will probably never get close to the United States, but Earl may well be the next threat, as he threatens to head west on a similar path that Charley started on near Jamaica. From there, the early guess is that he keeps heading more west than Charley, because the trough over the eastern U.S. is going to weaken during the next few days. But we've got lots of time to consider all that.

Suddenly, it's a jumping tropical season.