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Gustav weakens to tropical storm
GUSTAV
UPDATE, 10 pm: It’s now Tropical Storm Gustav, with 60 mph winds centered near Alexandria, La. Hurricane Hanna is meandering in the Bahamas and expected to continue to do so for the next day; Tropical Storm Ike is forecast to be in the Bahamas around five days after Hanna.
UPDATE, 7 pm: Gustav remains just barely at hurricane strength, with 75 mph winds, as it continues to work its way inland.
UPDATE, 4 pm: Hurricane Gustav is now near Opelousas, La. with winds near 80 mph.
Meanwhile, Tropical Depression Nine has now become Tropical Storm Ike, which seems to be aimed toward the area now being vacated by Hurricane Hanna. And then there’s Invest 99, a disturbance poised to become TD10/TS Josephine real soon now.
UPDATE, 2 pm: Hurricane Gustav has weakened to a Category One storm with 90 mph winds, its center now just northeast of Franklin, La. Baton Rouge, the state capital, is now reporting hurricane force winds. In New Orleans, Industrial Canal waters are now reported to be subsiding, where earlier they were lapping over the floodwall.
UPDATE, 1 pm: Data from a Hurricane Hunter flight has prompted the National Hurricane Center to upgrade Tropical Storm Hanna to Hurricane Hanna, just east of the island of Mayaguana in the Bahamas. Hanna is forecast to run up the Bahamas before making a U.S. landfall by week’s end in the Florida/Georgia/South Carolina area.
UPDATE, 12:15 pm: Gustav’s center is now inland near Morgan City, La., with 105 mph winds. In New Orleans, which is reporting winds right at the edge of hurricane strength, water is sloshing over the Industrial Canal floodwall, but no breaches have been reported and Army Corps of Engineers officials expect the levees to hold.
Looking ahead, the chances that Waco will get rain from Gustav are diminishing; the forecast track (which, as the Houston Chronicle’s Eric Berger points out, has held up pretty well throughout Gustav’s Gulf trek) now carries the remnants of Gustav north into Oklahoma instead of farther west into north central Texas.
UPDATE, 10 am: The center of Hurricane Gustav has now made landfall near Cocodrie, La., according to the National Weather Service. It came ashore as a Category Two hurricane with 110 mph winds 70 miles from New Orleans, which puts the city mostly within the tropical-storm-force wind zone.
Meanwhile, Tropical Depression Nine has formed in the deep Atlantic, expected to become Tropical Storm Ike by later today. And Tropical Storm Hanna is nearing the Bahamas.
ORIGINAL TEXT: Hurricane Gustav’s eyewall is coming ashore around Terrebonne Bay, La., its winds weakened to Category Two strength. Better news for New Orleans, which is getting some hurricane-strength wind gusts but nothing like what had been feared.
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