Lol, I thought the exact same thing when I got up and looked at the radar just now. It's uncanny how he can downplay himself into the thick of these things.
That guy from Jersey is already dug deep into his foxhole. He'll emerge in a few decades like one of those Japanese fighters that didn't know the war was over.
It's a funny looking storm on satellite. Almost looks like the ULL is punching into the southern flank and blowing up thunderstorms away from the center.