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UNISYS Infrared Southeast Infrared Satellite (click here for 12 hour loop - thank you)
35A 30.10 -91.10 08/30/00Z 50 977 TROPICAL STORM
36 30.30 -91.20 08/30/03Z 50 980 TROPICAL STORM
36A 30.50 -91.30 08/30/06Z 45 981 TROPICAL STORM
37 30.90 -91.60 08/30/09Z 40 983 TROPICAL STORM
37A 31.10 -91.80 08/30/12Z 40 985 TROPICAL STORM
38 31.70 -92.10 08/30/15Z 35 987 TROPICAL STORM
38A 32.20 -92.30 08/30/18Z 35 992 TROPICAL STORM
39 32.70 -92.60 08/30/21Z 30 995 TROPICAL DEPRESSION
40 33.50 -93.00 08/31/03Z 25 998 TROPICAL DEPRESSION
At least the winds are ending. The central pressure is still low for a tropical depression. The wind speeds match, but, the central pressure is a little odd.BY LINDSAY WISE
MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS
WASHINGTON -- A weakened Isaac (click title to entry - thank you) continued to wreak havoc along the Gulf Coast on Thursday as the slow-moving storm crept northward toward drought-parched states at just 9 mph.
The water Isaac dumped did far more damage than its winds, which petered out to 40 mph Thursday. Isaac has produced as much as 25 inches of rain and a storm surge of 6 to 12 feet.
At the Louisiana-Mississippi border, officials ordered 60,000 residents to evacuate when a dam threatened to break at Lake Tangipahoa in Mississippi, about 100 miles northwest of New Orleans, while rescue crews used helicopters and boats to reach hundreds more stranded by flooding in southern Louisiana and parts of Mississippi. At least two storm-related deaths have been reported, in Vermilion Parish, La., and in Picayune, Miss.
"This is still a life-threatening situation in some areas," said Rich Serino, the deputy administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency...
25 inches of rain and it still isn't finished.
