[oceanview]

Bastardi still saying the eye will go in just east of NO.

[steveegg]

Semi-skilled radar manipulation - Katrina's still headed north-northwest at the moment, the center of the eye (still about 30 miles wide according to radar) is about 185 miles south-southeast (165 degrees) of New Orleans.

If it does turn, it looks like New Orleans will get the left eyewall and a bunch of water from Lake Pontchartrain.

[CFC__VRWC]

Bastardi still saying the eye will go in just east of NO.

Hell, it could for all I know. I guess there has to be a first time for everything, even for Joe Bastardi to make a good call.

I'm looking at the NO radar loop now - it looks to me that it would go just west of the city on it's present track, but it'll doubtless wobble on it's way in. The last loop I looked at, it looked like it was going even further west. No matter what, New orleans is in for a huge hit. There just isn't much room for it to make a really radical turn any more.