Monday, September 1, 2008

hurrican gustav new orleans weather radar gustav news

Hurricane Gustav is the seventh tropical cyclone, third hurricane and second major hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season. It formed on the morning of August 25, about 260 miles (420 km) southeast of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and rapidly strengthened into a tropical storm that afternoon and into a hurricane early on August 26. Later that day it made landfall near the Haitian town of Jacmel. As of August 31, 88 deaths have been attributed to Gustav in the Caribbean.
Tropical Storm Gustav Track & Radar Update

This is a video loop of Hurricane Gustav as it enters the Gulf of Mexico and heads towards the US Coastline. Current area of target is New Orleans Louisiana.

The eye of Gustav entered into Greater New Orleans around 5 a.m. CDT on September 1, with the eyewall rain bands first crossing east of Grand Isle, Louisiana.
According to the National Hurricane Center, it is currently a Category 3 hurricane, with the technical landfall of the entire hurricane eye expected on the Louisiana coast around midday September 1. Info (c) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Gustav
Hurricane Gustav Hurricane Tracker