[alancarp]

Here's Bastardi's (Accuweather) position forecast near landfall: 28.5N, 89.5W 915MB and 135 Kts -- a cat 5 level. That would bring this beast in between Gulfport and NOrl, which is wayyyy too close to call for a NOrl disaster (the worst being if Lake Ponch is breached and all that water pours into the city).

And here's the morning model runs from the S. Fla. water management district website. Now I gotta go mow the grass. http://www.sfwmd.gov/org/omd/ops/weather/plots/storm_12.gif

[mewzilla]

Need the obligatory Bastardi pic :)

[alancarp]

The GFDL model has it drilling directly at New Orleans at around 8-9am Monday morning. I think that prediction is for a 930 mb storm.