Category 3 Gustav
Gustav is a category 3 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 120 mph. The National Hurricane Center says Gustav could strengthen to a category 4 storm before hitting western Cuba later today and tonight. Not good for those folks.
The forecast track as it pertains to the Central Gulf Coast has not changed. Look for landfall as a category 3 storm on Monday night, most likely around the central Louisiana coast. A category 3 storm has maximum sustained winds of 111 to 130 mph. The current forecast track places New Orleans in the right-front quadrant of the storm; meaning strong on-shore winds and a big storm surge (read more). My relatives from Louisiana aren’t taking any chances: they’re heading to Tennessee tomorrow.
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on August 30th, 2008 at 8:56 am
Like I said yesterday, Gustav needs to take a hard left when it gets into the Gulf.
On this day in weather history ..
1776 - General Washington took advantage of a heavy fog to evacuate Long Island after a defeat. Adverse winds kept the British fleet from intervening. (David Ludlum)
1839 - A hurricane moved from Cape Hatteras NC to offshore New England. An unusual feature of the hurricane was the snow it helped produce, which whitened the Catskill Mountains of New York State. Considerable snow was also reported at Salem NY. (The Weather Channel)
1982 - A tropical depression brought torrential rains to portions of southern Texas. Up to twelve inches fell south of Houston, and as much as eighteen inches fell southeast of Austin. The tropical depression spawned fourteen tornadoes in three days. (David Ludlum) Record cold gripped the northeastern U.S. Thirty-one cities in New England reported record lows, and areas of Vermont received up to three inches of snow. (The Weather Channel)
1987 - Eight cities in California and Oregon reported record high temperatures for the date, including Redding CA and Sacramento CA where the mercury hit 100 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Thunderstorms drenched Georgia and the Carolinas with heavy rain, soaking Columbia, SC, with 4.10 inches in three hours. Fresno CA was the hot spot in the nation with a record high of 109 degrees. Duluth MN tied their record for the month of August with a morning low of 39 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Thunderstorms developing ahead of a cold front produced large hail in Montana and North Dakota during the evening and early nighttime hours. Hail three inches in diameter was reported 20 miles south of Medora ND, and thunderstorms over Dawson County MT produced up to three inches of rain. Thunderstorms produced golf ball size hail at Roundup MT, Dazey ND and Protection KS. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)