Hurricane Gustav is bearing down on the Louisiana coast. It has weakened to a Category 2 hurricane with winds of 110 mph but that doesn't change too much in terms of impacts affecting southern Louisiana.
Watch the latest hurricane forecast.
As of 10 a.m. CDT, Gustav made landfall near Cocodrie, Louisiana. It was centered about 70 miles southwest of New Orleans and about 100 miles southeast of Lafayette, Louisiana. It is moving to the northwest at 15 mph and it will continue in this direction all day today moving into western Louisiana by tonight.
View the Gustav Tracker.
View the projected path.
The northern half of Gustav is now spinning over southeastern Louisiana. In fact, the northern half of Gustav's eyewall is scraping along the marshy coast of southern Louisiana passing south of Houma and eventually south of Morgan City.
Spiraling rain bands will continue to push onshore this morning and will produce tropical storm-force sustained winds (occasionally sustained hurricane-force winds) and easily gust over hurricane force.
The very dangerous water-level rise will continue to grow higher and higher this morning with a 8 to 12 foot surge in the vicinity of landfall. Here's a look at the expected storm surge.
View the current Hurricane watches and warnings and tropical storm watches and warnings.
Remember, don't only focus on the landfall location. Tropical storm-force winds extend 200+ miles from the center and hurricane-force winds extend 70 miles from the center. Wind, surge, and rain impacts will be far reaching. After landfall, the focus will shift from winds and surge to flooding rains and isolated tornadoes.
Tropical Storm Hanna was centered about 40 miles north of the Southeast Bahamas as of 11 am ET. Maximum sustained winds have yet again increased to 60 mph.
A hurricane watch has been posted for a portion of the Bahamas.
View the Hanna Tracker.
Hanna will slide southwest today before making a turn toward the northwest some time on Tuesday. This will take it on a course that will move it over the southeastern and central Bahamas during the next few days.
View the latest projected path for Hanna.
Tropical Storm Hanna has already begun to churn the ocean waters off the Southeast coast. On Sunday afternoon, numerous rescues by lifeguards were carried out along the North Carolina coast and lifeguards along the Georgia coast reported several rip currents. Please be mindful of the dangerous surf during this holiday weekend.
Though Gustav is still on people's minds, coastal residents of Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina should all monitor the track and development of Hanna. By Friday, it may be nearing the Southeast U.S. coast.
Elsewhere in the Atlantic Basin, a tropical wave and broad low pressure area has been deemed Tropical Depression 9. It is located halfway between the Lesser Antilles and Africa. Thunderstorm activity has remained with the depression over several hours now.
It may become a tropical storm by later today. It will initially head west-northwest then west over the course of this week. It is forecast to become a hurricane later this week.
There is another tropical wave that has just emerged from the African Coast that has potential for development in the next couple of days.
http://www.weather.com/newscenter/hurricanecentral/update/index.html
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