Are you ready for Gustav? I hope our Gulf coast friends are because it is headed
our way............sort of.......
Tonight it is Tropical Storm Gustav, but by Friday may be a Hurricane.
His winds tonight are near 45 mph but expected to strengthen.
The latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center shows the center of Gustav about 100 miles south of Guantamo, Cuba.and he was moving WSW at about 8 mph.
That is right. Tonight it is moving West Southwest, not towards the Gulf. But he is expected to turn more northerly once it clears Cuba.
It is expected to pass near Jamaca Thursday and then all of the computer models move it NNW into the southern Gulf and towards the coast of the United States by Monday or Tuesday.
Hurricanes are beasts and very difficult to pinpoint where they will make landfall.
Post Katrina, you know residents will be watching much closer if it nears New Orleans.
I pray it doesn't, they are just beginning to get the city back together. The last thing
they need now is another storm.
I'll be watching closely Gustav over the next couple of days. Hoping the advisories
tomorrow will show it weakening but I fear it will not. Here is when you hope the
forecasts are all wrong.
Dan