It's raining here. We're getting some nice green-yellow tropical downpours. Just west of Metairie had a recent 3-4" rain hour. They put up an Urban and Small Stream Flood Advisory for Jefferson and Eastern St. Charles Parish (the latter is roughly the SW corner of Lake Pontchartrain). It was dry downtown, but I guess 5 miles east or west of any location could make a big difference as it appears to have rained here most of the day (= puddles in the streets but no standing water outside of the usual places).

I think Old Swede, or was that Old Sailor - hit it on the head. You win some and you lose some. I'll take the loss for lack of development (gave it a 50/50) but a win for 2 straight tropical days and a generally good call on the effects of what we'd see. Double hats off to Joe B. who had between 90-92 from several days out. Beginning on Friday, the web forums (though not CFHC this time) had every possible reason why the tropical system was on its way to Florida. The lesson learned is that a MLC east of a sheared LLC isn't ordinarilly going to be a major event.

Steve