Pressure falls last hour: Beaumont 2.4 mb (to 990.1 mb), Lake Charles 1.6 mb (989.8 mb). No report from Galveston available yet. Lake Charles reported 51 mph sustained winds with 71 mph gusts about an hour ago.

Nothing seems to have changed much intensity-wise in the last hour. The satellite presentation has been erratic... it looks better now than it did for awhile, with some very cold convection on the north side of the eye. The eyewall is still open to the south within a larger clear area in that area of the storm. The center continues to wobble northwestward and conditions are going to get progressively worse along the coast from here on out.