[alancarp]

I was just asked to look at the radar loop in post 3 -- look carefully (nice shot, BTW): Ivan is now tracking dead North to the Miss/Alabama border. NOLA will be 80 miles from the landfall position.

[GOP_1900AD]

Isn't that loop a bit old? The last image on it was something like 1045 EDT.

[Flux Capacitor]

Sorry, but I don't see that.... it's heading NW in that radar, too; it's just running too slow to be obvious. But I'm looking at three other separate radars that are clearer:

http://orca.rsmas.miami.edu/wximages/jet/1_05/anis.html
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT/float-ir4-loop.html
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT/float-vis-loop.html

-Dan

[Types_with_Fist]

According to this Current Satellite Imagery...:-), the worst part of the storm is already near New Orleans, and the eye moving nearer to Plaquemines Parish, which is now completely in the red. The eye is decidedly west of the Alabama/Mississippi border. The movement, generally, is NNW.

[Gabz]

NOLA will be 80 miles from the landfall position.

SO WHAT........the system is nearly 600 miles wide with hurricane force winds more than 100 miles from the eye center.