A Very Short Gustav Update

Please be sure to read/watch the morning video discussion from James. (Scroll down just below this) It is loaded with good information. I am sure, with time, that we will start posting each full advisory on Gustav and this blog will go into a very high traffic situation. For the moment, to save scanning through a lot of info, here is a brief troubling note from the 8 am EDT NHC Discussion (not the advisory.)

PROJECTED POSITION AT 1 AM CDT NEXT MONDAY
* Center at 27.0N, 89.5W (a lot of you have hurricane tracking charts for plotting)
* Sustained winds 120 mph
* Gusts over 145 mph
* Category 3
* Centered over the North Gulf some 150 miles or so south of the Louisiana Coast
* Moving NW
* If all this pans out, it is a crucial situation
* People may start evacuating New Orleans area as early as this weekend based on media reports
* A large (no, huge) dose of caution. It is way to early to put all your plans on that one projection. We repeat for the 50,000th time that major errors can occur in the track forecast that far ahead. The National Hurricane Center pounds home that thought also.

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